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

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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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  • 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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  • A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright.  Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...

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  • In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...

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  • Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...

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  • 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 e...

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New Releases

New Releases

Books, movies, and music in all of Sawa's world languages

New Releases  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography
    Author:  Hillary Rodham Clinton

    The TIME Magazine and New York Times notable book by Hillary Clinton is now available in Arabic.  Hillary shares her thoughts, feelings, and intense personal experience running against Donald Trump in the last presidential election.

    $34.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    A new Arabic translation of Dostoevsky's novella about a government clerk and his journey into madness when a doppelganger appears and begins to take over his life.

    $22.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Gilbert Sinoue

    The newest novel by award-winning French author, Gilbert Sinoue, takes the reader on a fabulous journey, between legend and truth, to one of the oldest civilizations in the world: the country of Dilmoun. Dilmoun, the "country where the sun rises", was, according to Sumerian tradition, the place where the only survivor of the Flood resided. ...

    $23.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Mario Vargas Llosa

    This historical novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate is considered by some to be a masterpiece of Latin American literature. It masterfully weaves together fact and fiction to narrate an actual event: the assassination and its aftermath of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.

    $31.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Self-help
    Author:  Mark Manson

    Learn to take a grounded, realistic approach to your life with this first Arabic edition of the wildly popular, New York Times bestselling self-help guide by superstar blogger, Mark Manson.

    $28.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Gerbrand Bakker

    This gripping second novel by award-winning author, Gerbrand Bakker, tells the story of a Dutch woman named Emilie (not her real name) who severs all ties with her former life, including a husband who his alive and well, and moves to an isolated cottage on the coast of Wales.  Bakker was awarded the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 for...

    $24.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, History, Social Science
    Author:  Gustave Le Bon

    Gustave Le Bon was a 19th century French polymath whose travels and research in the emerging field of anthropology would result in a number of influential books as well as the Godard Prize from the French Academy of Sciences. In this highly respected work, Le Bon writes about early Arab peoples and culture and their valuable contributions to...

    $21.95
  • Language:  Arabic, German
    Subject:  Poetry
    Author:  Asmaa Azaizeh

    A modern collection of poems about what it means to be an Arab living in the West.

    $23.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  George R.R. Martin

    Now available in Arabic! A Storm of Swords, book three of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". An epic masterpiece of lords and ladies, assassins and bastards, soldiers and witchcraft, with a dragon or two or three thrown in for good measure. This product is one book in two volumes. The English language novel won both...

    $49.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Tawfiq al-Hakim

    Originally published in 1933, this play was hailed in literary circles as a landmark in Egyptian drama.  Based on the legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, it tells the story of three men and a dog, all of whom sleep for 300 years, in a cave, after fleeing religious persecution and seeking refuge there from a tyrant. They wake up and...

    $16.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Politics
    Author:  Michael Wolff

    The fiery New York Times bestseller that offers a controversial behind-the-scenes look at President Donald Trump's first nine months.

    $31.95
  • Language:  German
    Children Books:  Ages 3-5
    Author:  John Irving

    A little boy hears a sound in the night that he doesn't recognize.  His mind dreams up all kinds of scary things and he wakes his dad and says, "it's a sound like someone trying not to make a sound."  Eventually they discover what it is and both go back to sleep.  This endearing story is now available in German.

    $26.95
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