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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 tales&n...
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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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Notes: Clan War ..
somaliThe author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
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Sophie's misfort..
frenchSophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
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Little Biscuit a..
arabicA delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a li...
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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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G : a novel
arabicWinner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...
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Abraham Lincoln
arabicA biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
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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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The Cholera Scare
somaliWhen cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
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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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Meditations of a..
arabicThe final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
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Diaries
arabicIntroduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
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Xorriyadda iyo D..
somaliA Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
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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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Deutschland 83
germanA coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
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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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