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    Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a...

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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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  • 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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    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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    arabic

    Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...

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Short Stories

Short Stories

For adults in all of Sawa's world languages

Short Stories  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Dr. Ahmad al-Zallu'i

    A collection of folk and mythological tales dating back to the pre-Islamic period in the Arabian Peninsula.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Naguib Mahfouz

    In this fantasy novel Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz weaves the story of Shahryar and Scheherezade in his own way. He mixes the worlds of humans and demons in a magical fabric of tales that incite philosophical contemplation and arouse astonishment.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Wallace Stegner

    A collection of short stories by some of America's most celebrated writers provides a comprehensive survey of the origin and growth of this literary form. The selections in this volume represent each author working at the very height of his or her powers, producing memorable, brilliant fiction. Each story, too, is illustrative of the growth...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Didier Blonde

    Modern or old-fashioned, cafés are an essential element of Parisian decor. They are also theaters where scenes from daily life are played out at all times: chance or planned encounters, reunions or separations, in solitude or in a crowd… Sitting at a café table, French writer Didier Blonde observes  and writes about...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Maurice Leblanc

    A collection of stories featuring the gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin who has been described as the French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes. Arsène Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he always outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Maurice Leblanc

    A collection of stories featuring the gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin who has been described as the French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes. Arsène Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he always outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes...

    $21.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Ihsan Abdel Quddous

    A collection of short stories by beloved Egyptian writer, Ihsan Abdel Quddous. Written in the early Sixties, it begins with a letter written by Abdel Quddous to President Gamal Abdel Nasser that details the extreme, heavy, and violent censorship to which newspapers are subjected. The press had not yet been nationalized and Abdel Quddous was the...

    $18.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Short Stories
    Author:  Yahya Haqqi

    Yahya Haqqi, an award-winning writer and novelist who published four collections of short stories, a novel, and many articles. He is known for experimentation with various literary forms.

    $52.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  James Joyce

    A collection of short stories that present a vivid and unflinching portrait of life in Dublin, Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century.

    $24.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Edgar Wallace

    A collection of mystery stories by a classic British author well-known for his exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives.

    $19.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Mansoura Ez-Eldin

    This collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Al-Multaqa Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 and the Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature in 2020.  The author is an award-winning Egyptian novelist and journalist whose works have been translated into more than ten languages.

    $24.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Viet Thanh Nguyen

    By the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen, this is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.

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