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  • 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
  • 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...

    $34.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Shayma Hisham Saad

    A mother of five children with diverse personalities faces a unique confrontation with two thieves who have long awaited her demise. Everyone is talking about a woman named "Habbahan," whose husband claims she returned home six hours after being buried to resume her normal life. Is death merely a formality, while life continues? A tale born of...

    $26.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Dr. Ahmad al-Zallu'i

    A collection of folk and mythological tales dating back to the pre-Islamic period in the Arabian Peninsula.

    $32.95
  • 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
  • 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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