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  • This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...

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  • H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...

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  • On 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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  • Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd.  He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...

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  • Bird Box
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    In 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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  • 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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  • When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...

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  • The 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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  • 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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  • Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...

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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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  • Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...

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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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  • 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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  • An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

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  • A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...

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Novels

Novels

In all of Sawa's world languages

Novels  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Erica Jong

    Another funny and daring novel by the author of "Fear of Flying."  In this hilarious, yet poignant novel, a former actress grapples with aging and end of life issues through youthful fantasies fulfilled on a website created by her best friend.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Philip Roth

    Roth's candidly intimate yet universal story of loss and regret, aging and mortaility.  This is Roth's third novel to receive the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Lauren Oliver

    Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Publishers Weekly, this bestselling debut novel is now available in Arabic.  It tells the story of a popular high school senior who dies in a terrible accident on February 12 "Cupid Day."  The story doesn't end there, however.  The student, by some miracle, relives the last day of her life...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Alice Walker

    The story of Tashi, a minor character from Walker's "The Color Purple." In Walker's words, Tashi "left Africa but had taken her wound with her to America." 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Stefan Zweig

    This is the final work of the Austrian master, Stefan Zweig.  This psychological novella reflects on Nazism through the game of chess.  When shipmates on their way from New York to Buenos Aires discover that the world champion of chess is also on board, they take him on, game after game, and are soundly defeated.  That is until a...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Muṣṭafá Naṣr

    This novel tells the story of John, the Jewish barber of Alexandria, who is falsely accused of a crime and murdered.  He would later be exonerated and a shrine built in his memory that is celebrated by Jews every year.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Patrick Süskind

    An illustrated novella for adults by the internationally acclaimed author of Perfume.  The narrator reflects on his childhood and the appearance of the bizarre Mr. Sommer who serves as a background to the narrator's inner life and feelings. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Philip Roth

    The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused of racism and forced to resign. The story twists and turns with subtly complex characters against the backdrop of America in the 1940s. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hoda Barakat

    Winner of the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel tells the stories of people in exile through their letters. Author Hoda Barakat is known for exploring the psychological effects of conflict and trauma in her works.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Iman Yehia

    Set in the early 1950s, this is a complex love story between an Egyptian man, Yehia and a Mexican girl named Ruth, who is the daughter of Diego Rivera, the famous mural painter. Longlisted for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Mohammed Al-Maazuz

    Raheel, even though she is divorced, is determined to remain hopeful.  She resists depression through music, uses her new found freedom to play and sing as a way of sowing seeds of hope. Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2019.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Witold Gombrowicz

    When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was promptly banned.  It has been translated into more than 20 languages, and the English translation won the 2001 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators Association. ...

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