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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Muṣṭafá Naṣr

    This novel tells the story of John, the Jewish barber of Alexandria, who is falsely accused of a crime and murdered.  He would later be exonerated and a shrine built in his memory that is celebrated by Jews every year.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ṭantāwī ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Ṭantāwī

    A new novel by the well-known Egyptian writer, Tantawi Abdel Hamid Tantawi.  Tantawi is a member of the Egypt Writers Union and president of the Minya (Egypt) Literature Club.  He has written several novels, short stories, two plays, and a book of children's stories.  In this novel, Younis could be suffering from diaspora. ...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Yūsuf Zaydān

    Shortlisted for the 2020 IPAF. By the critically-acclaimed, award-winning and much translated Egyptian author, Youssef Ziedan, comes an historical novel about Ibn Sina's life during his detention in the Ferdakan Citadel in Central Iran.  Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna (c. 980-1037), was a Persian Muslim polymath who is considered...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Teen/YA
    Author:  Selma Lagerlöf

    Written by Swedish author, Selma Lagerlof, this novel weaves fact and fiction into a grand tale of adventure as it recounts the story of the young Nils who has been "miniaturized" by an elf and travels the countryside on the back of a goose.  Lagerlof would go on to become the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909).

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Patrick Süskind

    An illustrated novella for adults by the internationally acclaimed author of Perfume.  The narrator reflects on his childhood and the appearance of the bizarre Mr. Sommer who serves as a background to the narrator's inner life and feelings. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Social Science
    Author:  Ali al-Wardi

    By the great Iraqi sociologist Dr. Ali Wardi, this book explores the mystique of genius, the effectiveness of incentives, and other ideas related to personal success.  This is the one of the top 10 books written by the "Godfather of Sociology" that is still in high demand.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Najīb Maḥfūẓ

    A brand new collection of never before published short stories of the great Egyptian writer, Naguib Mahfouz.  These stories were discovered in a box of papers delivered to the editor by Mahfouz's daughter, Umm Kuthum.  Mahfouz won the1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.  The book includes facsimiles of the original pages in the author's handwriting.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Philip Roth

    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 racism and forced to resign. The story twists and turns with subtly complex characters against the backdrop of America in the 1940s. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Oscar Wilde

    The collection of five short stories, originally intended for children, written by Oscar Wilde and originally published in 1888.  Stories included are The Happy Prince; The Nightingale and the Rose; The Selfish Giant; The Devoted Friend; and The Young King.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Muḥsin Ramlī

    A new novel by the award-winning Iraqi author, Muhsin Ramli. This novel raises questions about the great humanitarian issues and the concepts that have always been reintroduced in the ages: good and evil, love, dreams, freedom, destiny, death, morality, family relations and their impact on the destiny of people.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture
    Author:  Terry Eagleton

    Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism and its impact on a"faithless" culture that is seeking a modern replacement for God.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 11-13
    Author:  Jeff Kinney

    Greg has fallen on hard times.  Among other things, his best friend has ditched him.  Making new friends in middle school is no easy task.  Will Greg's luck turn around?

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