By 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...

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

Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...

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

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

The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...

In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...

George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...

Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...

The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524.  Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...

In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...

Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...

An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...