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

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    This 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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  • Language:  Persian
    Genre:  Comedy, Drama
    Director :  Jafar Panahi

    Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous act of artistic and political defiance he has made three features since then including Jafar Panahi's Taxi.  In Taxi he drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up...

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  • Language:  Spanish
    Genre:  Comedy
    Cast:  Robert Lorie, Paul Chamberlain, Ashly Burch
    Director :  Kenny Riches

    A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban construction worker and his Korean friend Conan (Paul Chamberlain), as their lives get bumped off track the moment they agree to attend a spiritual meditation class.

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  • Language:  Spanish
    Genre:  Documentary
    Director :  Patricio Guzman

    Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Patagonian waterways and the tragic journey of Jemmy Button, who in 1830 was bought by the English Navy for the price of a mother-of-pearl button.

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  • Language:  Spanish
    Genre:  Comedy, Drama
    Cast:  Tenoch Huerta, Leonardo Ortizgris, Sebastian Aguirre
    Director :  Alonso Ruizpalacios

    Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-ridden limbo. Education-less, motionless, purposeless, and unsure of what the strike will bring. They begin to look for strange ways to kill time. But their routine is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of...

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  • Language:  Arabic, Hebrew
    Genre:  Animation, Documentary
    Director :  Amer Shomali, Paul Cowan

    Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel."

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Genre:  Documentary
    Director :  Andrea Kalin, Oliver Lukacs

    Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, taking us from the trenches to geopolitical jockeying and becoming, a long the way, a searing expose of an ongoing humanitarian crisis.

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  • Language:  Hebrew
    Genre:  Drama
    Cast:  Sarit Larry, Avi Schnaidman
    Director :  Nadav Lapid

    The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student.

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  • Language:  German
    Genre:  Drama
    Cast:  Jonas Nay
    Director :  Edward Berger, Samira Radsi

    A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in the 1980s.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hamid Nazir

    Eritrea is under Ethopian occupation and there's to be a revolution. The enslaved and followers who dream of freedom will rise up under the leadership of Al Saqqa. As with every other revolution there are those who seek to acquire their own power through any means necessary. Longlisted for the 2016 IPAF.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Nikolai Gogol

    Translation of a book of short stories written by Nikolai Gogol in 1831-32. His memories of childhood in today's Ukraine are depicted in these pictures of peasant life.

    $23.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History
    Author:  Ibn Khaldun

    The most important Islamic history of the premodern world; written by the great 14th century Arab scholar, Ibn Khaldun, this monumental work presented the foundation of several fields of knowledge including philosophy, sociology, economics, and more.

    $39.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Alberto Manguel

    Essays by the "Casanova of Reading," explore the crafts of reading and writing, literary identity, the art of translation, the power of censorship, and the links between books and politics.

    $24.95
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