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Trump Revealed: ..
arabicThe 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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Accidental
arabicPreviously 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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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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Serafin: reading..
germanTwo friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
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Ferdydurke
arabicWhen 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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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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Taxi
persianInternationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
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The Kindergarten..
hebrewThe 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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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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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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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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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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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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Wanted 18
hebrewThrough a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
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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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The Paris library
Language: ArabicSubject: Historical fictionAuthor: Janet Skeslien CharlesParis, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile...
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White Jasmine
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Khawlah HamdiI was in love with him from the moment he was born. I would gaze at him all day long, as if he were my first child. He was a little angel, completely white. His pure whiteness was astonishing, like a snowflake in a hot country, and he would nurse and sleep peacefully, and he didn't cry like other babies. His presence beside me filled me with...
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Getting old: deal with it
Language: ArabicSubject: HealthAuthor: Lee JanoglyYou know you're old when your adult children talk to each other in front of you and spell out certain words. Reaching the milestone of 80, Lee Janogly was continually irritated at the notion that older people are slower, frailer and generally out of touch with modern living. Even if we do sometimes put the remote control in the fridge, we know...
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Victorian: unique stories and narratives
Language: ArabicSubject: BiographyAuthor: Nouf Dahyan RuwaysanDelves into astonishing facts and unique stories of key figures in the Victorian and Andalusian periods.
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Scents of Dihya
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Tariq BakariOne of two things could have brought him back to Sanhaja, his Amazigh village: the death of the mother who had scarred his childhood, or the return of Najma—the wife of Bernard, his first love, his forbidden passion, and his surrogate mother—who had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. And now, after a quarter of a...
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Reincarnation: between illusion and reality
Language: ArabicSubject: SpiritualityAuthor: Mona GhadbanWhat do you know about your past life? Have you ever wondered who you are? Do you believe that this is not your first life? And how many times will you live? The evidence is abundant, and the signs are numerous, so has it ever crossed your mind that you have lived before? If so, you are not alone. Since ancient times,...
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Remarkably bright creatures
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Shelby Van PeltAfter Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly...
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Woman from Tehran
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Fariba VafiTells the story of women confined within four walls, immersed in imposed isolation, not isolation chosen of their own free will. They endure the cold and dull lives of their husbands, and have learned to suppress everything within themselves and to live without a bird soaring high above. The author reveals to us the inner worlds of thousands of...
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Zaroufa is worried
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 6-10Author: Katrina RoeZaroufa has a new camera! She is visiting the mountains and wants to get the perfect photo. But at the top of the lookout, Zaroufa gets the jitters. Will she let her fear of heights stop her from achieving her dream?
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History of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Julian BarnesIt's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism...
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Breath and papers
Language: ArabicSubject: BiographyAuthor: Dhia JanabiAn overview of authors and writings that interweaves personal expression with written artistry.
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Where'd you go, Bernadette?
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Maria SempleWhen her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her.
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Namesake
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Jhumpa LahiriThe award-winning author of "The Interpreter of Maladies" continues the theme of the immigrant experience fraught with the problems of assimilation and the conflicted path between old and new generations. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their vexing transformation into...
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Small death
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Mohammed Hasan AlwanWinner of the 2017 International Prize for Arabic fiction, this novel, by Saudi author, Mohammed Hasan Alwan, is the fictionalized telling of the life of a Sufi saint, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi. Ibn Arabi was born in 12th century Muslim Spain and became a Sufi mystic who traveled the Middle East and wrote about his experiences.
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Great Gatsby
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldThe classic novel of 1920s American prosperity and idealism tells the story of the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his passion and obsession for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered a "Great American Novel", it provides a critical social histroy of America during the Roaring Twenties, and is a long-standing regular on...
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Diary of a wimpy kid: the third wheel
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 11-13Author: Jeff KinneyTranslated into 35 languages, the ever popular series for middle school readers is back with Greg and his buddy Rowley trying to find dates for the Valentine's Day dance. Who will get a date first and who will be the third wheel?
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Diary of a wimpy kid: old school
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 11-13Author: Jeff KinneyWhen Greg's mom is successful in petitioning the town to turn off the electricity for 48 hours, poor Greg has to learn how to cope without modern conveniences and be "old school."
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The Night Mail
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Hoda BarakatWinner of the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel tells the stories of people in exile through their letters. Author Hoda Barakat is known for exploring the psychological effects of conflict and trauma in her works.
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To kill a mockingbird
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Harper LeeConsidered one of the best novels of the 20th century, yet consistently banned and challenged since it was first published in 1962, Harper Lee's novel of race relations in the 1930s American South has been translated into 40 languages with 40 million copies sold. It is available here in a new Arabic 2016 edition.
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Celestial Bodies
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Jukhah al-HarithiThe winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019 is available here in its original Arabic. It tells the story of Oman's evolution from a traditional society to the modern crossroads where it finds itself today. Told from the viewpoint of three sisters from one family, we meet Mayya who has married on the rebound; Asma who has married...
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Wonder
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 11-13Author: R. J. PalacioNow a major motion picture, this is the story of 10-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with severe facial abnormalities. Though not expected to survive, he does, and goes from being home-schooled to finally entering fifth grade at a private school. There he learns to endure the taunts, bullying and fear of his classmates.
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The Fault in Our Stars
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Teen/YAAuthor: John GreenThe critically-acclaimed and ever popular YA novel by John Green is here in Arabic. It is the moving, and at times humorous, story of 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who has cancer. Her parents force her to attend a support group where she meets and falls in love with a 17-year-old ex-basketball player and amputee.
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Of mice and men
Language: Arabic, EnglishSubject: NovelsAuthor: John SteinbeckOriginally published in 1937, this novel tells the story of two displaced migrant farm workers who move around California searching for work during the Great Depression. It has been banned or challenged numerous times for offensive and racist language and appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of the...
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Hard choices: a memoir
Language: ArabicSubject: BiographyAuthor: Hillary Rodham ClintonHillary Rodham Clinton details her role as Secretary of State during the Obama administration offering a candid look at the choices, challenges, and sometimes entertaining interactions with the world's foreign leaders.
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Diary of a wimpy kid: the third wheel
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 11-13Author: Jeff KinneyTranslated into 35 languages, the ever popular series for middle school readers is back with Greg and his buddy Rowley trying to find dates for the Valentine's Day dance. Who will get a date first and who will be the third wheel?
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Road to Mecca
Language: ArabicSubject: BiographyAuthor: Muhammad AsadA fascinating and beautifully written autobiography by Muhammad Asad, formerly known as Leopold Weiss. Born into a Jewish family and a descendant of a long line of Jewish rabbis, Weiss converted to Islam and became one of the most influential European Muslims of the 20th century.
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The dinner
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Herman KochHow far would you go to protect your children? This question is answered when two couples meet for dinner in a high-class restaurant. Their sons are responsible for a horrific crime. This dark, critically-acclaimed novel was made into a major motion picture by the Dutch (2013), the Italians (2014), and now the American version will be...
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People of the Cave
Language: ArabicSubject: LiteratureAuthor: Tawfiq al-HakimOriginally published in 1933, this play was hailed in literary circles as a landmark in Egyptian drama. Based on the legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, it tells the story of three men and a dog, all of whom sleep for 300 years, in a cave, after fleeing religious persecution and seeking refuge there from a tyrant. They wake up and...
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Long poem
Language: FrenchChildren Books: Ages 6-10Author: Gwendoline RaissonThe teacher has assigned the kids a long poem to memorize and recite for the end of the year show. Classmates Paul, Jeanne and Lea try to find a quick and easy way to learn the dreadful poem. Then they discover a mysterious magic potion that seems to be the perfect solution. It works great, except for one weird side effect --...
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Fear of Fifty: a Midlife Memoir
Language: ArabicSubject: BiographyAuthor: Erica JongThe iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherhood.
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I have the Right to be a Child
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 6-10Author: Alain SerresA picture book based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 1989 document written by the UN. Each page is based on a different article from the Convention. Topics include food and water, housing, gender, race, poverty and war.
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Wild
Language: ArabicSubject: BiographyAuthor: Cheryl StrayedThe #1 New York Times Bestseller, voted A Best Book of the Year by NPR, and Oprah's Book Club book, the wildly (no pun intended) popular memoir of Cheryl Strayed and her 1,100-mile solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail is finally available in Arabic. The author recounts her triumphs and mishaps as she takes to the trail in the wake of the loss of...
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Mother
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Maxim GorkyThe best known novel by Maxim Gorky is based on true events during the Russian revolutionary movement.
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History of Somali plays and arts
Language: SomaliSubject: Culture, HistoryAuthor: Mohammed Sh. HassanDivided into two parts, this invaluable resource first documents the history of Somali arts from the 1940s onward, and the second part details the productions of some 70 well-known plays. Included is information about the theaters, directors, producers, and performers. Illustrations include photographs, facsimiles of playbills, and...
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To kill a mockingbird
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Harper LeeConsidered one of the best novels of the 20th century, yet consistently banned and challenged since it was first published in 1962, Harper Lee's novel of race relations in the 1930s American South has been translated into 40 languages with 40 million copies sold. It is available here in a new Arabic 2016 edition.
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Pearl Button
Language: SpanishGenre: DocumentaryDirector : Patricio GuzmanMasterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Patagonian waterways and the tragic journey of Jemmy Button, who in 1830 was bought by the English Navy for the price of a mother-of-pearl button.
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Wanted 18
Language: Arabic, HebrewGenre: Animation, DocumentaryDirector : Amer Shomali, Paul CowanThrough a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel."
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Red Lines
Language: ArabicGenre: DocumentaryDirector : Andrea Kalin, Oliver LukacsAward-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, taking us from the trenches to geopolitical jockeying and becoming, a long the way, a searing expose of an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
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Decent one
Language: GermanGenre: DocumentaryDirector : Vanessa LapaOn May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds of private letters, documents, diaries, and photographs. The Decent One makes use of these materials to sketch the biography and expose the inner mind, ideals, plans and secrets of SS commander and...
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Victoria
Language: GermanGenre: Drama, ThrillerCast: Laia Costa, Frederick LauDirector : Sebastian SchipperThis film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one single take. Two hours and eighteen minutes. No cuts. No CGI. No cheap tickets. No expensive ones, either. Just one shot.
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Taxi
Language: PersianGenre: Comedy, DramaDirector : Jafar PanahiInternationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous act of artistic and political defiance he has made three features since then including Jafar Panahi's Taxi. In Taxi he drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up...
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Strongest man
Language: SpanishGenre: ComedyCast: Robert Lorie, Paul Chamberlain, Ashly BurchDirector : Kenny RichesA funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban construction worker and his Korean friend Conan (Paul Chamberlain), as their lives get bumped off track the moment they agree to attend a spiritual meditation class.
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Deutschland 83
Language: GermanGenre: DramaCast: Jonas NayDirector : Edward Berger, Samira RadsiA coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in the 1980s.
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Gueros
Language: SpanishGenre: Comedy, DramaCast: Tenoch Huerta, Leonardo Ortizgris, Sebastian AguirreDirector : Alonso RuizpalaciosEver since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-ridden limbo. Education-less, motionless, purposeless, and unsure of what the strike will bring. They begin to look for strange ways to kill time. But their routine is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of...
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The Kindergarten Teacher
Language: HebrewGenre: DramaCast: Sarit Larry, Avi SchnaidmanDirector : Nadav LapidThe 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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A girl walks home alone at night
Language: PersianGenre: Romance, ThrillerCast: Sheila Vand, Arash MarandiDirector : Ana Lily AmirpourStrange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the town's most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom . . . blood red. B&W
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The great American university
Language: ArabicSubject: Education, HistoryAuthor: Jonathan R. ColeAmerican universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the author presents the American university as a national resource that should be supported and protected as a catalyst for economic growth and a source for solutions to the myriad of complex problems dotting the...
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Xorriyadda iyo Dawladda Dasriga ah
Language: SomaliSubject: PoliticsAuthor: Harold LaskiA Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landscape to discuss the meaning and place of liberty and freedom in the global context and includes some undelivered lectures by economist and political theorist, Harold Laski.
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Diaries
Language: ArabicSubject: BiographyAuthor: George OrwellIntroduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell's youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War...
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History of modern philosophy
Language: ArabicSubject: Reference, Social ScienceAuthor: William Kelley WrightA 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy to understand layman's terms, this book will take the reader on a jaunt through history from Francis Bacon to Locke to Kant to William James.
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Notes: Clan War 1990-1994
Language: SomaliSubject: HistoryAuthor: Siciid Cismaan KeenadiidThe author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan militias during this horrendous time in Somali history. An estimated 350,000 Somalis die of disease, famine, and civil war.
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Trump Revealed: an American Journey of...
Language: ArabicSubject: Biography, PoliticsAuthor: Michael KranishThe definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in military school to his ventures in real estate and eventually his celebrity status. It discusses his successes and failures in business, conflicts with jouranlists and sexual misconduct accusations; and...
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Abraham Lincoln
Language: ArabicSubject: Biography, History, PoliticsAuthor: Ibrahim al-KhafifA biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States. He would change the course of history.
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Big history and the future of humanity
Language: ArabicSubject: History, Natural ScienceAuthor: Fred SpierAvailable in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its place in the overarching history of life, the Earth, and the Universe. Author, scholar, researcher and lecturer, Fred Spier, offers new theories into the future of humanity with a sweeping view of the past....
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Stories of Famous Artists
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 6-10, Ages 11-13Author: Sair Basma JiBrief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vowelled text for easier pronunciation. A great introduction to art history for young readers.
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Decision points: a memoir
Language: ArabicSubject: BiographyAuthor: George W. BushGeorge W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Oval Office.
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Human Stain
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Philip RothThe Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused of racism and forced to resign. The story twists and turns with subtly complex characters against the backdrop of America in the 1940s.
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Woody Allen on Woody Allen
Language: ArabicSubject: BiographyAuthor: Woody AllenIn this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his films, and also reveals his thoughts on his childhood, his work, and his relationships.
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