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The great Americ..
arabicAmerican universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
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Trump Revealed: ..
arabicThe definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
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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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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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Caballero
frenchGenaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd. He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...
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Dora Bruder
arabicBy the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, this is the haunting novella, based on the true story of a Jewish teenager in WWI...
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Together: the ri..
arabicThis thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
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Advice from the ..
germanA collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
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Origin of Things
arabicAn interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...
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Where is my frie..
arabicA little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?" ...
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I Don't Know Wha..
arabicSamy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...
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A girl walks hom..
persianStrange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
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Culture
arabicTerry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
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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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Stories of Famou..
arabicBrief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
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IPAF 2023
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction
IPAF 2023
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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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Stone of Happiness
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Azher JirjeesThe story take place in Mosul and Baghdad between 1962 and 2018. After his younger brother drowns in the river Tigris in Mosul, young Kamal Touma runs away, terrified of his father's brutal reaction, and hides in a fearsome place known as the 'garden of spirits.' Just before boarding a lorry heading south to the capital city, he picks up a...
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The Antikkhana
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Nasser IraqThe novel transports us to nineteenth-century Cairo and the Antikkhana, the first museum founded in Egypt in the time of the Khedive Ismail (1863-1879). The narrative unfolds through the eyes of four main characters. One is Ramadan al-Mahmadi, an Egyptian carpenter who lures housemaids with promises of marriage into stealing artefacts...
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Days of the Shining Sun
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Miral al-TahawyThe events of this novel are sandwiched between the suicide of Jamal, a young man torn between different identities, in the opening pages, and the suicide of Mimi, an African girl who has survived a massacre in her country, at the end of the novel. They take place in an imagined small town called Shining Sun on the southwestern border...
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Family House
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Rabia RaihaneThe novel is set in Morocco in the first half of the twentieth century. Farida relates memories of her childhood and growing up in ‘the family house’ built by her grandfather Kabour, a strong, brave and chivalrous man. Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
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Bar Lialina
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ahmed El-FakharanyIn this satirical novel, the protagonist Nuh Al-Rahimi resorts to trickery to gain admittance to Bar Lialina, frequented by the cultural elite. He hopes that through emulating them, he will discover what makes them so intelligent, while he by contrast is an ignoramus with inferior creative ability. When his ruse is discovered, he is cruelly...
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They All Say I Love You
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: May TelmissanyWith a quiet humor, this novel gets under the skin of five middle-aged, middle class Arab intellectuals living in Canada and America, following the twists and turns of their love lives as they question their choices in life and reflect on (un)faithfulness in romantic relationships. Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic...
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Ages of Daniel in the City of Threads
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ahmad AbdulatifA dystopic allegory about the apocalypse, set in a nameless city of threads, or dolls, which might be a macabre projection of Cairo. The novel has a unique narrative and linguistic style, with frequent repeated refrains and a lack of punctuation when one of the characters speaks, reinforcing its uncanny, nightmarish quality. Longlisted for...
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My Name is Zayzafoune
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Sausan Jamil HasanThe novel explores Arab moral double standards which make the individual, women in particular, wear a false face and live as spectators of their own lives rather than autonomous players in them. The two names of the heroine of the novel (Jahida/Zayzafoune) serve to highlight these double standards. After a watershed moment in her life when she...
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