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  • The 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A 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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  • 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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    Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

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    In 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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Literature

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Literature  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Poetry
    Author:  Hermann Hesse

    What is happiness? Hermann Hesse explored the meaning of this word, which he also loved for its sound, throughout his life. What he himself experienced as blissful was rarely of a material nature – for him, the deepest source of happiness lay in the impressions we owe to the receptiveness of our senses, the capacity to fall in love and...

    $26.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography, Literature
    Author:  Dhia Janabi

    An overview of authors and writings that interweaves personal expression with written artistry.

    $24.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History, Literature, Politics, Religion
    Author:  Chase F. Robinson

    Religious thinkers, political leaders, lawmakers, writers, and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-largest religion. But who were these people? The author traces the rise and fall of Islamic states through the biographies of political and military leaders who worked to secure peace or expand their...

    $36.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature

    In an effort to save her life, Scheherazade captivates King Shahryhar with a story every night that ends in a cliffhanger so the King will come to her the next night to hear more of these astonishing tales. Night after night for more than 1,000 nights, she regales him with mythical love stories and swashbuckling adventures until the King falls...

    $137.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History, Literature, Politics, Social Science
    Author:  Saad al-Bazai

    This book includes texts of some of the most prominent Western thinkers, writers, critics, and artists who contributed to the establishment and formulation of Western modernity over the three hundred years spanning from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Philosophy, art, music, sociology, psychology, and more from...

    $46.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Social Science, Religion
    Author:  Paul Tillich

    The rare synthesis between philosopher-theologian and artist. Here is the intellectual autobiography of Paul Tillich, whose lifelong search for the truth, the reality and the meaning of God lies a the very root of the ecumenical and existential revolution of our times.

    $23.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Novels
    Author:  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    An Arabic translation of Goethe's classic "The Sorrows of Young Werther."  This is the story of the sensitive and passionate Werther and his extreme response to unrequited love presented in a collection of letters written by Werther to his friend Wilhelm. Not so much a tale of love and romance, it is believed to be a chronicle mental health...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Anistas Mari al-Karmili

    A well-known Lebanese Christian priest and linguist known for his writings on Arabic linguistics, history and literature.  He authored a traditional Arabic language dictionary in 1883, and became the first librarian at the Baghdad Peace Library that would later become the Iraq National Library.  This is a book of Arabic folktales.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, Literature
    Author:  Bertrand Russell

    A collection of writings by the British philosopher, historican, social reformer, and pacifist.

    $21.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, Literature
    Author:  Bertrand Russell

    The famous British philosopher, logician, writer, and Nobel laureate shares his thoughts about war, religion, happiness, the future of mankind, and more.

    $16.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Social Science
    Author:  Ali Hussein

    The concept and meaning of love is explored through the writings of various philosophers from Sartre to Heidegger and Tolstoy to Einstein.

    $22.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer, and film director, translated and adapted Sophocles story of Oedipus into a major motion picture. Pasolini add a modern-day prologue and epilogue to the famous myth as well as emphasizing the innocence of Oedipus. Pasolini was inspired by Sophocles contrast between total innocence and the obligation to...

    $29.95
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