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  • A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...

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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 story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...

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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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  • 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 lo...

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  • Elling
    arabic

    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 ...

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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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  • 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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  • Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...

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

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  • Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...

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  • 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 WWI...

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  • When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...

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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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  • Gueros
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    Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...

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  • A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski.  The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...

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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

    Amir Tag Elsir, a Sudanese writer and medical doctor, writes a gruesome "comedy" about the first Ebola outbreak in Sudan in 1976.

    $21.95
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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.

    $21.95
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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.

    $26.95
  • 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.

    $26.95
  • 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.

    $49.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ali Badr

    The twelvth novel by the award-winning Iraqi author tells the story of Fatima who will later become Sophie.  As Fatima, she experiences all the horror of the armed extremists who control her village.  She escapes to Europe via a trafficking network and when she reaches Brussels, she remains Fatima by day and throws off her niqab to...

    $24.95
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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.

    $26.95
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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Elif Shafak

    The ever popular and lyrical tale of love featuring parallel narratives, one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century when Rumi meets Shams of Tabriz, is here in a new Arabic translation.

    $36.95
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