My First Words

An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultur..

Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, ..

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..

Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny n..

This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and wer..

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..

Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its place..

It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner pa..

A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States. ..

By the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, this is the haunting novella, based on the true story of a Jewish teenager in WWII..

Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is los..

The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524.  Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beaut..

George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Oval..

A little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?"  F..

In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what a..

Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciati..