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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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Red Lines
arabicAward-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
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21 grams
arabicIn 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
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One thousand and..
frenchA 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 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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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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Bailey finds a h..
germanBy the author of the bestselling novel, A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture, this illustrated novel for young readers...
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Gueros
spanishEver since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
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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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The Kindergarten..
hebrewThe 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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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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Culture
arabicTerry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
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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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Strongest man
spanishA funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
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Xorriyadda iyo D..
somaliA 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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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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Fiction
Adult fiction including novels, short stories, and science fiction in all of Sawa's world languages
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The Three Musketeers
Language: Arabic, EnglishSubject: NovelsAuthor: Alexandre DumasThe great adventure novel by French author, Alexandre Dumas, was published in 1844. It is a tale of adventure and friendship featuring d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, members of the Paris-based Musketeers of the Guard. This is the bilingual edition in Arabic and English.
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Investigations of a Dog
Language: ArabicSubject: Short StoriesAuthor: Franz KafkaOriginally written in German in 1922, this short story by Franz Kafka centers on a dog and his inquiries into the rationale of his existence in the world.
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Nausea
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Jean-Paul SatreJean-Paul Sartre's first, and considered his best, novel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964. A key work of existential fiction, it tells the story of Antoine Roquentin who keeps a diary of his thoughts and feelings that include a "sweet sickness" that he likens to an overpowering feeling of nausea that eventually causes him to...
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Flowers Consumed by Fire
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Amir Tag ElsirKhamila is modern and wealthy, and has just returned to her hometown with a college education. Suddenly, seemingly overnight, the town is overrun by a group that has declared war on its inhabitants. Women become objects (flowers) of pleasure to be consumed at will by the leaders of the religious revolution (fire).
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Girl who kicked the hornet's nest
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Stieg LarssonThe Millenium trilogy continues with the third book in the series featuring Lisbeth Salander, who is about to be tried for three murders -- if she recovers from her injuries. With the help of her journalist friend, Mikael Blomkvist, she has to prove her innocence. On her own, however, she plots her revenge against the man who tried to kill her.
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Great Gatsby
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldThe classic novel of 1920s American prosperity and idealism tells the story of the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his passion and obsession for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered a "Great American Novel", it provides a critical social histroy of America during the Roaring Twenties, and is a long-standing regular on...
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She grew up with ghosts
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Bernice ChaulyThe fictional biography of Malaysian writer Bernice Chauly who traces bloodlines and the ghosts of family history to solve a curse that has plagued her family. Her mother was Chinese and her father was Punjabi. They fell in love and got married despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Their first child, Bernice, brings peace to the families,...
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Exorcist
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: William Peter BlattyThe 1971 horror classic about the demonic possession of 12-year-old Regan MacNeill and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon. Terrifying in any language.
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Accidental
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ali SmithPreviously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a family's summer vacation. Her startling appearance in their lives transforms each member of the family allowing them to see themselves in fresh new light.
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There but for the: a novel
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ali SmithIt received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner party one evening, a guest named Miles goes upstairs between dinner and dessert and locks himself in the spare bedroom and refuses to leave or communicate for months. What happens next, according to the reviews, is nothing...
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Ten nights and the teller of stories
Language: ArabicSubject: Short StoriesAuthor: Tahar Ben JellounWinner of the Dublin Prize, this is undoubtedly one of the most enchanted books by the award-winning Moroccan author. Ben Jelloun takes the ten tales of Perrault (Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, etc.), masterfully reworks them in an Arab and Muslim context, and presents them in the manner of the Thousand and One Nights.
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