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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Odile Weulersse

    This morning, Nasreddine is going to the market. He sits on his carpet and talks about the quality of his products. But, during that time, someone steals his donkey tied to a tree. To find the guilty thief, Nasreddine invents a story to make the whole crowd tremble ...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Samah Abu Bakr Ezzat

    One morning, while Karim was on his way to school, his bike hit a stone in the road, causing him to fall to the ground in pain. Eyad quickly ran towards him, laughing. He didn't extend his hand to help him, but rather to take a selfie of them together. Eyad immediately posted the selfie with Karim on his Facebook page, where it garnered a large...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Teen/YA
    Author:  Deena Mohamed

    In the third and final part of the trilogy, we return to Shokry, the owner of the kiosk selling the three first-class wishes, who has finally paid off his debts. Shokry has always considered wishes to be blasphemous, but his faith is about to be tested when he discovers that his friend, an old woman from the neighbourhood, is dying from cancer....

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 11-13
    Author:  Rachel Renee Russell

    Nikki Maxwell develops a sudden interest in student journalism that may or may not (okay, definitely does) have to do with the fact that mean girl MacKenzie has started writing a gossip column. So Nikki joins the school newspaper staff—and ends up as an advice columnist! It’s fun at first, answering other kids’ letters. But...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

    A Russian artist living in Sudan, who gathers a group of young Sudanese men around him and teaches them art at university. The human relationships between them are analyzed in the novel. The artist leaves Sudan, leaving his students to live their own story as they struggle with their environment and authority.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History, Literature, Politics, Religion
    Author:  Chase F. Robinson

    Religious thinkers, political leaders, lawmakers, writers, and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-largest religion. But who were these people? The author traces the rise and fall of Islamic states through the biographies of political and military leaders who worked to secure peace or expand their...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Patricia Highsmith

    The psychological thriller about two men whose lives become entangled after one of them proposes they "trade" murders. Originally published in 1950, it was adapted as a film in 1951 by Alfred Hitchcock.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Poetry, Reference
    Author:  Dr. Najmah Rajai

    Salvation is an ancient human aspiration for which poets have composed the most sincere poems. It is the goal of the soul, yearning to break the shackles and tear off the chains that prevent it from soaring in the realm of freedom. To express this aspiration, the contemporary poet has turned to myth. This book examines some of these poems...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Naguib Mahfouz

    In this fantasy novel Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz weaves the story of Shahryar and Scheherezade in his own way. He mixes the worlds of humans and demons in a magical fabric of tales that incite philosophical contemplation and arouse astonishment.

    $26.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Kristin Harmel

    Inspired 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Rachid Boudjedra

    In 1950s Algeria, still scarred by anti-Semitic purges, the War of Independence plunged the country into violence and bloodshed. Witnessing this wreckage, the narrator recalls his childhood spent between Algiers and Constantine, where French troops paraded and killed.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmad Zanati

    Winner of the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity 2016.

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