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    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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    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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Books

Books

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

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Arwa Khumayyis

    Mothers and daughters can love different things yet make wonderful memories together.

    $29.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 11-13, Teen/YA
    Author:  Sun Weiwei

    Jiang still remembers the details of the most important day of his life.  That day, he experienced both joy and sadness at school within just a few hours. Before the school day began, his teacher informed him that he had been selected for the final round of the Innovation Cup competition and would be traveling to a distant city for the...

    $23.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography, Travel
    Author:  Lutfiyah Dulaymi

    The Iraqi writer, journalist, and women's rights activist received death threats after the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was forced to flee her country. She lived in various countries before settling in London. This book recounts her time spent living in Paris.

    $27.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

    Sakin is a Sudanese fiction writer with roots in Darfur.  His literary works have been banned in Sudan and he now lives in exile in Austria.  In this novel, a poor man lives with his wife and children in a small village where they struggle to live raising chickens and selling the eggs.  One day the man discovers a differeng kind...

    $36.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Khalil Nassif

     The novel draws parallels between the experiences of its characters during their childhood and upbringing, revealing post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from childhood traumas. Shortlisted for the Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction 2023.

    $26.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, History
    Author:  Warida Kaloush

    Pieces together the unknown history of the Amazigh.

    $23.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hanan al-Shaykh

    Yasmine left Beirut for the South of France years ago. An optimist by nature, she manages to find joy in her days in a suburban housing project in the Var region, but worries about the idleness and addictions of Naji, her only child. The young man dreams of becoming a rapper and fuels his creativity with drugs. Mother and son no longer know how...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, LifeStyle
    Author:  Rami Hamdi

    A series of engaging, interconnected literary essays. In each chapter, the author encounters a famous figure—writers, artists, musicians, architects, doctors, and others, both living and deceased—at a restaurant he designed in real life.

    $23.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Sharon Dodua Otoo

    A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer,...

    $33.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Graham Greene

    It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic...

    $24.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Reference, Social Science
    Author:  Henrik Fexeus

    Teaches you everything you need to know in order to become an expert at mind-reading. Using psychology-based skills such as non-verbal communication, reading body language, and using psychological influence, Fexeus explains how readers can find out what another person thinks and feels– and consequently control that person’s thoughts...

    $34.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography
    Author:  Anne Weber

    The extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and saved the lives of two Jewish children in Paris on the eve of their deportation to the camps. As a doctor and mother devoted to justice and equality, Annette was...

    $28.95
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