Whatever happens, it is going to be a very interesting read this month!
Still, I am going to add another one with my last nomination, Edward Said "Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World".
I have only read essays, but
Edward Said surely knew how to write. This books is available as ebook (unlike
Orientalism), and given the current events in the Mediterranean I thought it may be interesting. Nevertheless, if we believe this to be too recent and/or controversial to qualify, I'd be happy to think of something else, or second one other of the beautiful list of books that have been named already.
Here is the blurb from
Amazon
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Edward Said takes an unusually sharp and penetrating look at the way in which the experts, the policy-makers and the media have dealt with the crisis in Iran and the Middle East. He shows how our traditional misunderstandings of the outside world have led us to continue to misunderstand events of enormous and immediate importance. Using many examples, COVERING ISLAM demonstrates that the media and the government-business establishment have produced a dangerously misleading and oversimplified portrait of Islam and Muslims, based on ignorance, inaccuracy and prejudice.
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while
here is a Wikipedia article on the book.
Inkmesh