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Victoria
germanThis film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
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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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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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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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Cilmiga Ciqaabta
somaliAn exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
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Notes: Clan War ..
somaliThe 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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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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Thus Spoke Zarat..
arabicNietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
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Diaries
arabicIntroduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
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Red Lines
arabicAward-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
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Xorriyadda iyo D..
somaliA 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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Bird Box
arabicIn an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
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Together: the ri..
arabicThis thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
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The Cholera Scare
somaliWhen cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
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Dora Bruder
arabicBy the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, this is the haunting novella, based on the true story of a Jewish teenager in WWI...
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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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Historical fiction
For adults in all of Sawa's world languages.
Historical fiction
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Madame Bovary
Language: ArabicSubject: Literature, Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Gustave FlaubertThe classic tale of Emma Bovary, a woman who yearns for romance and luxury, but is instead married to a man with a second-rate medical degree and little ambition. Madame Bovary's attempts to escape the banality of her married life through adulterous affairs and voracious spending sprees with devastating consequences.
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Woman of Thirty
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Honore de BalzacNumber 22 in Balzac's collective works known as The Human Comedy. This tragic, yet brilliant novel tells the story of thirty-year-old Julie, an intelligent, sensitive woman who is married to a man not worthy of her. Balzac draws a portrait of a miserable marriage and life brought about by incorrect choices and inequalities of the day.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Thomas HardyFrom the author of "Far from the Madding Crowd" and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," comes one of the most powerful classic novels. Considered a masterpiece, it is a gripping masterful tale of a time when women could be sold for a farthing and there was the constant tug and pull of custom over education. The novel opens with a scene 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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Children of the People: Mamluk Trilogy
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Reem BassiouneyA sweeping historical novel from the era when the Mamluks ruled Egypt. Mamluks were a warrior class of slave soldiers that rose to power and ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. They are known for having defeated the western European Christian Crusaders and formally ending the era of the Crusades in 1302.
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The Feast of the Goat
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Mario Vargas LlosaThis historical novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate is considered by some to be a masterpiece of Latin American literature. It masterfully weaves together fact and fiction to narrate an actual event: the assassination and its aftermath of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
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Heart of Darkness
Language: Arabic, EnglishSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Joseph ConradThe novella by Joseph Conrad was first published in 1899. The main themes are colonialism and racism, and the novel has been extensively analyzed and hotly debated over time. This is a bilingual edition in Arabic and English.
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The Three Musketeers
Language: Arabic, EnglishSubject: NovelsAuthor: Alexandre DumasThe great adventure novel by French author, Alexandre Dumas, was published in 1844. It is a tale of adventure and friendship featuring d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, members of the Paris-based Musketeers of the Guard. This is the bilingual edition in Arabic and English.
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Troubled sleep
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Jean-Paul SartreAn Arabic translation of "La Mort Dans L'Ame" by French philosopher, playwright, and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre. This novel, part of the Roads to Freedom series, offers a moving portrayal of the fall of France in 1940 and the tormented response of the French people to German occupation.
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Song for Valentine: a Normandy novel
Language: GermanSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Amelie BretonA sweeping historical romance set during WWII in Normandy. It is 1942 and the journalist Valentine is on assigment in Honfleur where she meets and falls in love with Yves, a member of the Resistance against the German occupiers. After a brief time of bliss, Yves must flee his love and his country. Is he dead? Will the lovers ever be reunited?
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Moriarty
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Anthony HorowitzWhat really happened when Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Moriarty took their deadly tumble off Reichenbach Falls? Find out in this tale of menace and murder by one of the only writers to receive a seal of approval from the Conan Doyle Estate.
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Babbitt
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Sinclair LewisConsidered the greatest novel by the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Babbitt takes a satirical look at the American middle class lifestyle in the 1920s. Now available in Arabic, it is ranked No. 47 of the 100 best novels by The Guardian.
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