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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights from his Paris walks, and philosophical arguments about education and politics.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmad Mourad

    The sixth novel from the award-winning Egypian author takes the reader to a futuristic world.  One the day of the comet, Nadim sees the red-haired gyspy from his dream sitting in the audience.  She takes him to a place many would like to see, but some facts are better left in the dark.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History
    Author:  Muhammad Abu al-Fadl Ibrahim

    Jahiliyyah is the period of time and state of affairs in Arabia before Islam.  This pre-Islamic period is considered "the time of ignorance." This book is a history of the culture and clashes of Arabs before the advent of Islam.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Alawiyah Subh

    By award-winning (Sultan Qaboos prize) Lebanese author, Alawiya Sobh, this novel depicts women's experiences during the Lebanese civil war, primarily Maryam, an author who is struggling to rescue memories before they disappear.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Amir Tag Elsir

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Jane Austen

    Jane Austen's classic tale about Elizabeth Bennet and her suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, one of the most popular novels in English literature, is here in a new Arabic edition.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture, Social Science
    Author:  Skip Dine Young

    Combines psychology, film studies, communication, and cultural studies to explore movies, the people who make them, and the people who watch them.  Includes illustrations and bibliography.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hagar Peeters

    Winner of the Fintro Prize for Literature 2016, the critically-acclaimed debut novel by Dutch poet, Hagar Peeters, is now available in Arabic. Reviewed as written in "lush, lyrical prose" it tells the story of Malva, the only child of Pablo Neruda who died at the age of 8 and is now a ghost in search for her father in the afterlife.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Poetry
    Author:  Rabindranath Tagore

    Available for the first time in Arabic! Firelies were proverbs, aphorisms and maxims originated in China and Japan and were often written on pieces of silk. When Rabindranath Tagore "the Bard of Bengal" visited Japan, he collected them in his notebooks. Each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a luminous thought on love, life,...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography
    Author:  Ibn Hisham

    Ibn Hisham's well-known, classic, and highly-respected biography of the Prophet Muhammad based on his knowledge and study of the original work by Ibn Ishaq.  Four volumes in one.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ali Badr

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  José Saramago

    A new Arabic translation of the stunning and ever popular novel about man's will to survive against all odds.  When an epidemic sweeps through a city and leaves everyone blind, the worst and best of mankind emerges.  Written by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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