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  • A 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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  • Eritrea 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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  • The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...

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  • The 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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  • A 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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  • A 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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  • Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...

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  • A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...

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  • The 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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  • This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...

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  • George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...

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  • Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...

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  • Strange 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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  • Previously 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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  • Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...

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  • A 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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Literature

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Literature  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Dr. Hasan Bahrawi

    Heritage researcher Dr. Hassan Bahrawi presents a selection of Moroccan folk tales from their various origins (Arabic, Amazigh, and Sahrawi), covering diverse topics (animal tales, magical, fairy tales, mythical, and humorous tales, etc.). His comprehensive encyclopedia of Moroccan tales offers insight into the imaginative diversity that...

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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:  Literature

    In an effort to save her life, Scheherazade captivates King Shahryhar with a story every night that ends in a cliffhanger so the King will come to her the next night to hear more of these astonishing tales. Night after night for more than 1,000 nights, she regales him with mythical love stories and swashbuckling adventures until the King falls...

    $137.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History, Literature, Politics, Social Science
    Author:  Saad al-Bazai

    This book includes texts of some of the most prominent Western thinkers, writers, critics, and artists who contributed to the establishment and formulation of Western modernity over the three hundred years spanning from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Philosophy, art, music, sociology, psychology, and more from...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Social Science, Religion
    Author:  Paul Tillich

    The rare synthesis between philosopher-theologian and artist. Here is the intellectual autobiography of Paul Tillich, whose lifelong search for the truth, the reality and the meaning of God lies a the very root of the ecumenical and existential revolution of our times.

    $23.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Novels
    Author:  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    An Arabic translation of Goethe's classic "The Sorrows of Young Werther."  This is the story of the sensitive and passionate Werther and his extreme response to unrequited love presented in a collection of letters written by Werther to his friend Wilhelm. Not so much a tale of love and romance, it is believed to be a chronicle mental health...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Anistas Mari al-Karmili

    A well-known Lebanese Christian priest and linguist known for his writings on Arabic linguistics, history and literature.  He authored a traditional Arabic language dictionary in 1883, and became the first librarian at the Baghdad Peace Library that would later become the Iraq National Library.  This is a book of Arabic folktales.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, Literature
    Author:  Bertrand Russell

    A collection of writings by the British philosopher, historican, social reformer, and pacifist.

    $21.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, Literature
    Author:  Bertrand Russell

    The famous British philosopher, logician, writer, and Nobel laureate shares his thoughts about war, religion, happiness, the future of mankind, and more.

    $16.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Social Science
    Author:  Ali Hussein

    The concept and meaning of love is explored through the writings of various philosophers from Sartre to Heidegger and Tolstoy to Einstein.

    $22.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer, and film director, translated and adapted Sophocles story of Oedipus into a major motion picture. Pasolini add a modern-day prologue and epilogue to the famous myth as well as emphasizing the innocence of Oedipus. Pasolini was inspired by Sophocles contrast between total innocence and the obligation to...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his wisdom to the world.  The book is a combination of prose and poetry.

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