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Adult

Adult fiction and nonfiction in all of Sawa's world languages

Adult  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Badriya Albadri

    Set 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Rashid al-Daif

    After 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hanan al khattabi

    In the world of the supernatural there is a battle raging between purveyors of Black Magic and the doers of good.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History, Natural Science
    Author:  Yusuf Abu Hajjaj

    Everything you need to know about the characteristics, types, behaviors, racing, and more of purebred Arabian camels.

    $24.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Eissa Nasiri

    Inspired 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Sufyan Rajab

    Leila’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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Charles Dickens

    A rare detective story by one of the greatest English writers. A mysterious man named Julius Slinkton enters the life of Mr. Sampson, the manager of a life assurance office. Remarkably well-spoken and with insinuating manners, Slinkton initially seems to be the consummate gentleman. But as Sampson soon learns, appearances can be deceiving.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Paulette Jiles

    In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Erich Maria Remarque

    A woman is dying but chooses to live frivolously as long as possible. A man with no illusions about chance is powerfully drawn this woman who can look death in the eye and laugh. Together they make an unusual pair, living only in the moment without regard for the future.  It's perfect -- until one of them begins to fall in love.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Naguib Mahfouz

    This classic novel by the beloved Naguib Mahfouz in which the woes of a petit bourgeois family thrust into poverty in World War II Cairo are relayed in engrossing detail and represent a microcosm of Egypt's birth pangs in gaining independence. It is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family contronted by material, moral, and...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Self-help, Spirituality
    Author:  Osho

    With an artful mix of compassion and humor, Osho shows us that joy is the essence of life, that even unhappiness has its root in joy. He encourages us to accept joy by being grateful to be alive and for the challenges and opportunities in life, and by finding the good in all that we have―rather than setting conditions or demands for happiness....

    $27.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Ihsan Abdel Quddous

    A collection of short stories by beloved Egyptian writer, Ihsan Abdel Quddous. Written in the early Sixties, it begins with a letter written by Abdel Quddous to President Gamal Abdel Nasser that details the extreme, heavy, and violent censorship to which newspapers are subjected. The press had not yet been nationalized and Abdel Quddous was the...

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