A lot of uninformed accounts are out there, purporting to tell us the shocking and uniformly horrible truth about the Arabs and the Muslims.
One excellent corrective for this, a book that will (if it’s permitted to do so) put a human face on the people and the region, is Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, by my long-time BYU colleague Donna Lee Bowen, Evelyn A. Early, and, now, in its third edition, my former student Becky Schulthies (currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers):
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=21197
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