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

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  • Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...

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

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

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  • Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...

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

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  • In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...

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  • A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...

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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 story o...

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  • A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski.  The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...

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  • Diaries
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    Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

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  • An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...

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  • A 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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Adult

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

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Reem Bassiouney

    A sweeping historical novel from the era when the Mamluks ruled Egypt. Mamluks were a warrior class of slave soldiers that rose to power and ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. They are known for having defeated the western European Christian Crusaders and formally ending the era of the Crusades in 1302.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Georges Duhamel

    A new Arabic translation of the French novel about a man with strange fetishes who wanders aimlessly around the streets of Paris after he loses his job.

    $18.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Social Science
    Author:  Ali Hussein

    The concept and meaning of love is explored through the writings of various philosophers from Sartre to Heidegger and Tolstoy to Einstein.

    $22.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, LifeStyle
    Author:  Osho

    In this book, Osho, who was considered one of the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers in the 20th century, explores the differences between intellect and intelligence and posits that intelligence is the only way we can respond creatively to the challenges we face in the world today.

    $27.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  John Berger

    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 early years of the 20th century. Author John Berger was an English art critic, painter, novelist and poet. He was also a well-known Marxist who supported liberation movements around the world.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History, Travel
    Author:  Thorkild Hansen

    The spellbinding true story of the ill-fated Danish Arabia expedition (1761-67) led by Carsten Niebuhr.  Includes illustrations.

    $22.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography
    Author:  Erica Jong

    The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherhood.

    $27.16 $31.95 -15%
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Erica Jong

    The Arabic translation of the famously controversial novel by Erica Jong that was originally published in 1973.  It tells the story of a bold, young female author of erotic poetry who is trying to find her place, as a woman, in the world.  The English language version has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

    $28.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography, Religion
    Author:  Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad

    Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad was a an Egyptian poet, writer and literary critic who authored more than 100 books and several thousand articles.  He is most famous for his Abqariyat (Genius) series which consists of seven books covering the lives of the the seven most important companions of, and including, the Prophet Muhammad.  Those seven...

    $59.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Cynthia Swanson

    A provocative first novel and New York Times Bestseller about Kitty Miller, a single woman and bookshop owner in 1960s Denver.  When Kitty begins having longer and and longer dreams about Katharayn Andersson and her wonderful life with the man of her dreams and beautiful family, Kitty must decide which reality she wants to reside in.

    $26.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History
    Author:  Amal Bashshur

    A history of ancient Syria with maps and color illustrations of archaeological ruins.

    $43.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography
    Author:  Patrick Modiano

    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 WWII Paris who runs away from the Catholic boarding school that had been her hiding place.

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