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arabicWinner 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...
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The Prophecy of ..
arabicEritrea is under Ethopian occupation and there's to be a revolution. The enslaved and followers who dream of freedom will rise up unde...
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Deutschland 83
germanA 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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A girl walks hom..
persianStrange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
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There but for th..
arabicIt 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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Victoria
germanThis 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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The great Americ..
arabicAmerican 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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Bird Box
arabicIn an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
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Where is my frie..
arabicA little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?" ...
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How to ruin ever..
germanThe 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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Decent one
germanOn May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
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The Cholera Scare
somaliWhen cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
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Together: the ri..
arabicThis thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
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Trump Revealed: ..
arabicThe definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
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Human Stain
arabicThe Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...
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Meditations of a..
arabicThe 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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IPAF 2024
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction
IPAF 2024
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Nearly every day
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Mohammed Abdel NabiJust before turning 40, Fouad decides to get rid of 30 years’ worth of diaries in an effort to free himself of the past and start a new life. However, in browsing through the journals, he instead embarks upon a final writing project. Years go by and the project is uncompleted, until a group of ghosts arrive to lend their assistance,...
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The Idols
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Amin ZaouiPortrays the loving relationship between two brothers. The younger brother, Humaymid, fiercely defends his older sibling Mahdi, a fragile young man who is assassinated in mysterious circumstances by an Islamic terrorist group in Algiers University. A religious charity working with the terrorist group moves his body by night to the “city of...
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I heard everything
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Sara AlsarrafTwo narrative voices: Ishtar, a young girl who lost her parents in an accident and documents her thoughts in a diary; and her maternal aunt Aida, a journalist, who has a love affair with her boss, Abbas. Through their eyes, the atmosphere of 1980s Iraq is brought to life, spanning the turbulent years of the Iran-Iraq war to the harmonious...
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Spice circle
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Salha ObeidThe heroine of the novel belongs to a family of spice traders. Those close to her realise that she is able to distinguish the various elements of spices with remarkable accuracy, and with this powerful sense of smell she also judges people based on their scent. One day a man who was a forbidden friend during childhood suddenly appears to ask for...
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Gambling on the honor of Lady Mitzi
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ahmad al-MorsiThis novel transports us back to the beginning of the last century in Egypt through the absorbing stories of four people who meet at a racecourse: a boy forced to become a jockey; an English lady who buys his horse, having seen in the young boy the image of her deceased son; a bookmaker; and a retired policeman who places bets to pay for his...
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Suleima's ring
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Rima BaliUnfolding across Aleppo and Toledo, the novel tells the interwoven stories of half Spanish, half Jewish photographer Lucas and Syrian protagonist Selma. Switching between multiple narrators, it explores the relationships between Selma and Shams al-Din – an Italian musician living in Aleppo with whom she is infatuated – along with...
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Foumbi
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Badriya AlbadriSet in Congo under Belgian colonial rule between the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. According to African legend, the white man is a “foumbi”, a spirit or ghost, fleeing from the grasp of Satan after stealing the ghost’s colour. He is an ugly creature who has been beautified to make him...
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Other face of the shadow
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Rashid al-DaifAfter being touched by a cloud, the Queen suddenly becomes pregnant. The King has not been near her since he married her, and now the prophecy he once saw in a dream is being fulfilled: she will give birth to a boy who is not fathered by the king, who will one day inherit the throne. The Queen flees, wandering aimlessly in the steppes and...
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Mosaicist
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Eissa NasiriInspired by the art of the mosaic, this novel is set in the Moroccan town of Oualili, site of the ancient Roman city of Volubilis. It is a novel conceived as three manuscripts: two novels, and a memoir. The three manuscripts connect the distant past with the present and, like mosaic pieces, fit together to create a novel that is...
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Reader of the Tanners' Alley
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Sufyan RajabLeila’s passion for reading leads her to Tanners’ Alley in Tunis, famed for selling of old books. There she encounters an eccentric man who dreams of founding an association for ghostwriters. She becomes unwittingly embroiled in his fantastical schemes, and one day stumbles across an unusual novel alternately written by a male and a...
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