Start with high-confidence historical middle east books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Season of the Sandstorms
Mary Pope Osborne
Words in the Dust
Trent Reedy
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh
Ludmila Zeman
Lost Boys
Darcey Rosenblatt
Nasreen's Secret School
Jeanette Winter
Escape From Aleppo
N. H. Senzai
The Boy Knight
G.A. Henty
Everything Sad Is Untrue (a True Story)
Daniel Nayeri
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
The Teacher of Nomad Land
Nour's Secret Library
Wafa' Tarnowska
Rose by the Sea
Rebecca Rose Mooradian
A Persian Passover
Etan Basseri
