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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 New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German.  This is his debut memoir, writte...

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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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  • Samy 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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  • In 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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  • Gueros
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    Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...

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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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  • Diaries
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    Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

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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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    Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

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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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  • When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...

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  • A 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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  • An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

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  • The 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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  • Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...

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Award Winners

Award Winners

Nominated and award-winning books, movies, and music in all of Sawa's world languages.

Award Winners  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Elias Canetti

    By 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.

    $49.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  David Wagner

    A 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...

    $29.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Sylvain Prudhomme

    The 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...

    $28.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmad Adnan Najm

    The 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Margaret Atwood

    Grace 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10, Ages 11-13
    Author:  Maria Dadouch

    Ghassan 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.

    $22.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Didier Blonde

    Modern 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Douglas Stuart

    The 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.

    $48.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Teen/YA
    Author:  Deena Mohamed

    Aziza'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...

    $22.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Rahma Diya

    A 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.

    $24.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Richard Ford

    The 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...

    $37.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Margaret Atwood

    This 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.

    $52.95
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