Blogs in January 1970

The Night of the Miraj 1st January 1970

When Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears from her home in Jeddah just days before her arranged marriage, desert guide Nayir is asked to bring her home. But when her battered body is found,...

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The Sirens of Baghdad 1st January 1970

This book follows the story of a young man at University, exchanging furtive glances with a young woman, and his descent into terrorism

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Single in Saudi 1st January 1970

Bored at work and nursing a broken heart, a thirty something R.N. leaves her prestigious job at a Houston medical center to work at a military hospital in Saudi Arabia in 1978. She arrives in a land struggling to...

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The Mirage 1st January 1970

Mirage tells the story of a world in which Arabia is the superpower and the United States a third world country. In this reverse world Christian Fundamentalists fly into the Twin Towers in Baghdad. The story twists and turns...

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Carte Blanche (007) 1st January 1970

This is the 37th James Bond novel, written by American crime writer Jeffrey Deaver. It takes secret agent 007 from London to Serbia and Dubai, but much of the story is focused on the activities of Bond’s grotesque antagonist...

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