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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Woody Allen on W..
arabicIn this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...
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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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Elling
arabicTranslated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...
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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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Decent one
germanOn May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
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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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21 grams
arabicIn 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
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Award Winners
Nominated and award-winning books, movies, and music in all of Sawa's world languages.
Award Winners
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Fire of God
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Elias CanettiBy the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1981), this novel is a dark and disorienting tale of the self-destructive character of totalitarian thinking.
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The Forgetful Giant
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: David WagnerA family experiences a role reversal: The father, twice widowed, has become a child again. He needs care and will have to leave home because he forgets what just happened. He repeatedly recounts his love stories, and sometimes he fantasizes. This tender novel about the almost imperceptible progression of dementia is deeply touching and...
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Across the roads
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Sylvain PrudhommeThe story centers around a character named Sacha who leaves Paris for a small town in the south of France, where he reconnects with a childhood friend who is now settled down with a family. The arrival of Sacha disrupts the established family dynamic, particularly between Sacha and the friend's wife, Marie. The narrative delves into...
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Cousin Hajar's children
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ahmad Adnan NajmThe events take place between the United States and Iraq. Its protagonists are two ghost writers who exchange dialogue, one of whom carries a memory burdened by what he left behind in the country. He is an Iraqi immigrant deeply immersed in America and its cultures, adept at exploring the paths of its marginalized people. Winner of the...
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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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Mystery of the glass ball
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 6-10, Ages 11-13Author: Maria DadouchGhassan and Sophia use the mysterious eco-friendly glass ball to stop a plot to poison a desert oasis water supply. Winner: Sheikh Zayed Award 2022 for young adult literature.
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Cafes: stories from the cafes of Paris
Language: ArabicSubject: Short StoriesAuthor: Didier BlondeModern or old-fashioned, cafés are an essential element of Parisian decor. They are also theaters where scenes from daily life are played out at all times: chance or planned encounters, reunions or separations, in solitude or in a crowd… Sitting at a café table, French writer Didier Blonde observes and writes about...
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Shuggie Bain
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Douglas StuartThe heartbreaking story of addiction love features a young boy with a secret who struggles to take care of his alcoholic mother in 1980s Scotland. Winner of The 2020 Booker Prize.
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Shubeik Lubeik: a graphic novel
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Teen/YAAuthor: Deena MohamedAziza's story. In an imagined modern-day Cairo, first class wishes are sold in bottles, and third class wishes are sold in cans. Unfortunately, the majority of the population can only afford third class wishes, which have been banned in Europe and by the government because they are highly unpredictable and often come true in damaging or...
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Naqshabandi
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Rahma DiyaA biographical novel of the famous Sufi singer, Sheikh Sayyid Naqshabandi. Born in Egypt, he was well-known and beloved "with a voice that transcends worlds and soulful techniques that touch the heart." Winner of the Khairy Shalabi Award for a first novel 2021.
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Canada
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Richard FordThe unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel. After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a...
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The Testaments
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Margaret AtwoodThis sequel to The Handmaid's Tale picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. Winner of the Booker Prize 2019.
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