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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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Human Stain
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Xorriyadda iyo D..
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Wanted 18
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There but for th..
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Cilmiga Ciqaabta
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Advice from the ..
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Where is my frie..
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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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A girl walks hom..
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Culture and the ..
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The Cholera Scare
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The Kindergarten..
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Short History of..
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Decision points:..
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One thousand and..
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Historical fiction
For adults in all of Sawa's world languages.
Historical fiction
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Heart on the banks of the Danube
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Mohamed AdamThis historical novel takes place Ottoman Egypt in the 16th century during the reigh of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and describes the social and political life at the time.
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The Haunted Hotel
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Wilkie CollinsA kind, good-hearted genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appearing in an hotel all combine to create a horrifying conundrum in this gripping Victorian-era novel.
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Around the World in 80 Days
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Jules VerneA new Arabic edition of Jules Verne's most acclaimed work.
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Things Fall Apart
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Chinua AchebeThe classic African novel by Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, was first published in 1958. It tells the story of pre-colonial life in southeast Nigeria and the arrival of the Europeans in the late 19th century.
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Morning and evening talk
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Naguib MahfouzIn this experimental work, the lives of three related families are told through short character sketches from the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s and arranged in alphabetical order. It is a kind of biographical dictionary where the individual entries come together to paint a vivid portrait of life in Cairo from a range of perspectives. As the...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Language: ArabicSubject: Historical fictionAuthor: Charles DickensThe Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Alexandre DumasThe literary classic by Alexandre Dumas was completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works. The historical novel, set in the mid-1800s, tells the story of a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from prison, acquires wealth, and sets out seeking revenge on those who imprisoned him.
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The Admiral Doesn't Like Tea
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Nizar Abdul SattarIn early 1850, the steamer 'Clive', coming from Bombay, abandoned five chests of tea in the port of Basra, where Admiral Lancaster was serving his sentence of exile. The policy of promoting tea begins in parallel with a series of assassinations of Dutch coffee dealers, until tea became the number one drink in southern Iraq. This novel is...
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Khan al-Khalili
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Naguib MahfouzThe time is 1942, World War II is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt. Against this backdrop, Mahfouz’s novel tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo’s colorful and bustling Khan al-Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German forces will...
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Sartoris
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: William FaulknerThe classic novel by Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner delves into American history at the end of the Civil War. It portrays the decay of Mississippi aristocrats, the wealthy Sartoris family that lies under the shadow if its dead patriarch, Colonel John Sartoris. This novel introduces many characters that appear in Faulkner's later works.
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Three Men in a Boat
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Jerome K. JeromeThe historic humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome about a two-week boating holiday on the Thames River. Based on the author and two real-life friends, the book is part travel guide, part local history, and lots of humor. The book opens with the three friends spending an evening in Jerome's room, smoking and discussing...
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Marianela
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, ReligionAuthor: Benito Pérez GaldósConsidered as equal to Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy, the author, Benito Perez Galdos was a prolific Spanish writer who published 31 novels. This novel tells the story of Marianela (sometimes referred to as "Nela"), a poor orphan girl with an ugly face, and her love for Pablo, a blind boy, who also has romantic feelings towards Nela....
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