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Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, ..
-20%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner pa..
-15%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books ..
-20%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vowe..
-15%H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in ..
-15%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beaut..
-10%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 ea..
-17%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..
-17%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States. ..
-20%An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultur..
-12%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil societ..
-15%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciati..
-15%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&nb..
-20%The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in m..
-20%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was p..
-17%In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his films..
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Mothers and daughters can love different things yet make wonderful memories together.
Jiang still remembers the details of the most important day of his life. That day, he experienced both joy and sadness at school within just a few hours. Before the school day began, his teacher informed him that he had been selected for the final round of the Innovation Cup competition and would be traveling to a distant city for the...
The Iraqi writer, journalist, and women's rights activist received death threats after the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was forced to flee her country. She lived in various countries before settling in London. This book recounts her time spent living in Paris.
Sakin is a Sudanese fiction writer with roots in Darfur. His literary works have been banned in Sudan and he now lives in exile in Austria. In this novel, a poor man lives with his wife and children in a small village where they struggle to live raising chickens and selling the eggs. One day the man discovers a differeng kind...
The novel draws parallels between the experiences of its characters during their childhood and upbringing, revealing post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from childhood traumas. Shortlisted for the Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction 2023.
Pieces together the unknown history of the Amazigh.
Yasmine left Beirut for the South of France years ago. An optimist by nature, she manages to find joy in her days in a suburban housing project in the Var region, but worries about the idleness and addictions of Naji, her only child. The young man dreams of becoming a rapper and fuels his creativity with drugs. Mother and son no longer know how...
A series of engaging, interconnected literary essays. In each chapter, the author encounters a famous figure—writers, artists, musicians, architects, doctors, and others, both living and deceased—at a restaurant he designed in real life.
A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer,...
It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic...
Teaches you everything you need to know in order to become an expert at mind-reading. Using psychology-based skills such as non-verbal communication, reading body language, and using psychological influence, Fexeus explains how readers can find out what another person thinks and feels– and consequently control that person’s thoughts...
The extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and saved the lives of two Jewish children in Paris on the eve of their deportation to the camps. As a doctor and mother devoted to justice and equality, Annette was...