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TED Talks : offi..
germanChris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...
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Fear of Fifty: a..
arabicThe iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
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Ferdydurke
arabicWhen it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
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One thousand and..
frenchA modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...
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Accidental
arabicPreviously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
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The Federalist P..
arabicThis collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
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There but for th..
arabicIt received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
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Human Stain
arabicThe Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...
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Bailey finds a h..
germanBy the author of the bestselling novel, A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture, this illustrated novel for young readers...
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Mandrake
arabicThe five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
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Bird Box
arabicIn an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
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Lost & found
arabicThe delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic. It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...
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Gueros
spanishEver since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
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Culture and the ..
arabicTerry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
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The Prophecy of ..
arabicEritrea is under Ethopian occupation and there's to be a revolution. The enslaved and followers who dream of freedom will rise up unde...
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Red Lines
arabicAward-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
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Historical fiction
For adults in all of Sawa's world languages.
Historical fiction
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Mother of strangers
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Suad AmiryBased on the true story of two Jaffa teenagers, this novel follows the daily lives of Subhi, a fifteen-year-old mechanic, and Shams, the thirteen-year-old student he hopes to marry one day. In this prosperous and cosmopolitan port city, with its bustling markets, cinemas, and cafés on the hills overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, we...
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Box of sand
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Aisha IbrahimIt is 1911 and Sandro Compartini has just graduated from the Journalism Institute in Milan. He boards a steamer as a soldier in the 84th Corps, sent from Italy to war in Libya. While stationed in a trench in the desert, he falls in love with a milk seller from Tripoli, but she and her younger brother are arrested and sent to the Italian penal...
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Mario and Abu Abbas
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Reem BassiouneyA novel set between the era of the Sufi Al-Mursi Abu Al-Abbas and the era of the Italian architect Mario Rossi. Despite the long time gap between the two characters and the events that accompanied them, the writer presents their lives and how the Italian architect, who built several mosques for the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments, met Al-Mursi...
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Alias Grace
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Margaret AtwoodGrace Marks, the convicted murderess, has been hired out from prison to serve as a domestic servant in the home of the Governor of the penitentiary. A committee of gentlemen and ladies from the Methodist church, led by the minister, hopes to have her pardoned and released. Grace cannot remember what happened on the day of the murders, and she...
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The Black tulip
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Alexandre DumasThe tulip craze of 17th century Holland has a dark side when Cornelius van Baerle, a wealthy but naìˆve tulip grower, finds himself entangled in the deadly politics of his time. Cornelius' one desire is to grow the perfect black tulip. But, after his godfather is murdered, he finds himself in prison, facing a death sentence. His jailer's lovely...
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The Familiars
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Stacey HallsRich and compelling, set against the frenzy of the real Pendle Hill Witch Trials, this novel explores the rights of 17th-century women and raises the question: Was witch-hunting really women-hunting? Fleetwood Shuttleworth, Alice Grey and the other characters are actual historical figures. King James I was obsessed with asserting power over the...
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The Book of lost names
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Kristin HarmelInspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young librarian with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this sweeping historical novel.
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Little Women (2 Volumes)
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Louisa May AlcottThe beloved coming-of-age novel was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. In keeping with the original, this Arabic translation is available in two volumes. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as they grow to adulthood.
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Calamity of the nobility
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Amira GhenimRelates an important, untold story from Tunisia’s contemporary history. Its hero is the historical figure, the reformer El-Taher El-Haddad. Although historical references do not mention anything about his relationship with women, except for his desperate defence of them, the author adds an imaginary love affair with a woman called Lella...
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Lifeboat No. 8 : an untold story of love,...
Language: Arabic, EnglishSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Elizabeth KayeReveals the extraordinary, little-known story behind one of the first lifeboats to leave the doomed ship. Told in real time and in the actual voices of survivors, this poignant, pulse-pounding narrative includes the story of the Countess of Rothes, the wealthiest woman on the ship, bound for California, where she and her husband...
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Beginning and the end
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Naguib MahfouzThis classic novel by the beloved Naguib Mahfouz in which the woes of a petit bourgeois family thrust into poverty in World War II Cairo are relayed in engrossing detail and represent a microcosm of Egypt's birth pangs in gaining independence. It is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family contronted by material, moral, and...
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The Foundling: a story of a child and two...
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Stacey HallsTwo women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. In London, the year is 1754 and six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told that Clara has...
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