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Thus Spoke Zarat..
arabicNietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
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The Federalist P..
arabicThis collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
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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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Decision points:..
arabicGeorge W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
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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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TED Talks : offi..
germanChris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...
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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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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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Sophie's misfort..
frenchSophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
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Accidental
arabicPreviously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
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Elling
arabicTranslated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...
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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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Mandrake
arabicThe 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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The Cholera Scare
somaliWhen cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
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History of moder..
arabicA 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
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Abraham Lincoln
arabicA biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
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Adult fiction including novels, short stories, and science fiction in all of Sawa's world languages
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House of ornamentation: Ibn Rushd's mistress
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ibrahim FarghaliThis novel forges imaginative connections between two love stories: one between a teacher and his student set in Al-Andalus during the eleventh century, and its counterpart taking place in the twenty-first century. Why, then, does the plight of Ibn Rushd, which led to his exile to the village of Lucena and the burning of his books on science,...
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The Seafarer does not know the way
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Malek al-MubarakThis book is not about ports or ships; rather, it is about the author’s own soul—lost somewhere between departure and return—and about that young boy who once stood upon a harbor quay, dreaming that the world was far vaster than his small village, never realizing that the waves would carry him away into a life devoid of...
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The Wonder
Language: ArabicSubject: Novels, Historical fictionAuthor: Emma DonoghueIn 1862, a nurse haunted by her past travels from England to a remote Irish village to investigate allegations about a young girl whose religious family claimed she had lived without food for four months.
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Hind or the most beautiful woman in the world
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Huda BarakatThe mother was bereft of her firstborn, Hind—a child of extraordinary beauty. Then, when her second daughter, Hanadi, was afflicted with acromegaly, the resemblance that had once promised the mother a resurrection of her lost child vanished completely. Acromegaly transformed Hanadi into a grotesque figure; the mirror’s game was...
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One half from the East
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Nadia HashimiObayda's family is in need of some good fortune. Her father lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion, forcing the family to move from their home city of Kabul to a small village, where life is very different and Obayda's father almost never leaves his room. One day, Obayda's aunt has an idea to bring the family luck -- dress Obayda, the youngest...
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Garlic ballads
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Yan MoIn China, the tragic romance of farmer Gao Ma and Fang Jijnu, the pregnant woman who elopes with him. It is told against the background of the 1988 garlic farmers' revolt, protesting corrupt officialdom in Paradise County.
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Sleeping at the foot of the mountain
Language: ArabicSubject: Short StoriesAuthor: Hammur Ziyadah$26.95 -
Hakim : the madness of Ibn al-Haytham
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Yusuf ZaydanThis novel transports the reader from our contemporary era to the Fatimid age of a thousand years ago. Through this rich and evocative journey, it unveils extraordinary events and the peculiarities of reality, where the present meets the past. The narrative unfolds around a cast of figures including the Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah; his...
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Sawakin The First
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Walid MakkiA novel that is at once profoundly realistic and deeply mythical. It offers a keen observation of customs and traditions, alongside a continuous narrative chronicling the coexistence of *Jinn* and humans—beings who appear to form a single, interwoven fabric within this quintessentially tribal society.
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Stolen novel
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Hasan KamalSalma, a conservative Egyptian woman nearing the age of forty, makes the alarming and hurtful discovery that her husband is a serial cheat. Her favourite preacher then recants on his beliefs, causing her to radically reevaluate her life and try to fulfil her old dream of becoming a writer. Desperate to find inspiration for her work, she begins...
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Fragments of horror
Language: ArabicSubject: Short StoriesAuthor: Junji ItoA collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the loathsome, these stories showcase the...
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A Mask the color of the sky
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Basim KhandaqjiNur, an archaeologist living in a refugee camp in Ramallah, finds a blue identity card belonging to an Israeli in the pocket of an old coat. He adopts the mask of the occupier in an attempt to understand the Zionist mindset. Winner: 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
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