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  • Chris 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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  • Taxi
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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 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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  • The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic.  It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...

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  • Mandrake
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    The 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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  • The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...

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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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  • The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...

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  • American 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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  • Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...

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  • A 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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  • 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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  • Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...

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  • It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...

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  • 21 grams
    arabic

    In 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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  • A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...

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Books

Books

Books for adults and children in all of Sawa's world languages

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  George Orwell

    The classic novella of political satire by George Orwell was banned in Eastern Bloc countries until 1989, and in the West, is considered one of the best novels of the 20th century. This profound novel examines the dangers of totalitarian rule.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, Social Science
    Author:  Bertrand Russell

    Iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell lays out a rationalist prescription for living a happy life, including the importance of cultivating interests outside oneself and the dangers of passive pleasure.

    $19.95
  • Language:  Somali
    Subject:  Politics
    Author:  Harold Laski

    A 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.

    $33.26 $36.95 -10%
  • Language:  Somali
    Subject:  Politics, Social Science
    Author:  Dambisa Moyo

    Somali translation of "Dead Aid," by the pre-eminent Zambian economist and author known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs.   Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Dambisa Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's...

    $36.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Robert Louis Stevenson

    The classic tale of buccaneers and buried gold for teen and adult readers.  Read it again or for the first time.

    $26.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Honore de Balzac

    Number 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.

    $22.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Marc Lévy

    An unexpected love story from the international bestselling and extremely popular French author.  Chloe lives with her father in a Manhattan apartment building.  Sanji is the new Mumbai-born, Oxford educated elevator operator.  They are intrigued with each other and have a lot in common.  There is much to discover between them.

    $29.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Margaret Atwood

    Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2000, the novel features the elderly Iris Chase Griffen reviewing her life and, in particular, her relationship with her sister Laura, whose premature death in the 1940s affords her iconic status as the author of a scandalous novel. This is Atwood's tenth novel and beat five other authors on that year's shortlist...

    $52.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Mansoura Ez-Eldin

    This collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Al-Multaqa Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 and the Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature in 2020.  The author is an award-winning Egyptian novelist and journalist whose works have been translated into more than ten languages.

    $24.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Alice Walker

    The Arabic translation of Alice Walker's 1976 novel that has been described as a meditation on the modern civil rights movement.  This novel tells the story of Meridian Hill, a young black woman in the late 1960s who attends college at a time when the civil rights movement becomes violent. She soon discovers the limits beyond which she will...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography, History, Politics
    Author:  Ibrahim al-Khafif

    A 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Peter Schössow

    A little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?"  Finally, someone asks her "what is the matter?" "Elvis is dead!" she yells.  No, not that Elvis.  Elvis, her pet bird. He is in the purse. What follows is a touching story about the comfort of strangers...

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