George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%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...
-15%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 ...
-17%The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...
-17%A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...
-15%An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
-10%A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...
-15%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...
-15%The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic. It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...
-12%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
-20%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
-20%Chris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...
-15%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
-17%A young girl is taken to London for a medical procedure, but then is unable to return to her home in Gaza because of the Nakba. Renamed Christina, she is raised and educated in London. When her adoptive father dies, his sisters send her back to Gaza to fend for herself and find her family.
A family is evicted from their house and land by Israeli settlers. Years later, the adult grandson tries to return to the village to visit the old house, but is refused entry by the current resident. A fight ensues, someone dies, and the grandson relives his life in memories from a prison cell. The second novel by Palestinian...
During the Algerian revolution, a family is forced, along with the whole village, to flee to the Moroccan border. The political upheaval forces a grandfather, father, and son to take different ideological paths that ultimately intersect after the country achieves independence. By Algerian novelist and former director of Algeria's National...
Khamila is modern and wealthy, and has just returned to her hometown with a college education. Suddenly, seemingly overnight, the town is overrun by a group that has declared war on its inhabitants. Women become objects (flowers) of pleasure to be consumed at will by the leaders of the religious revolution (fire).
Doctor Annis returns from London to Syria in 2011, just before the revolution, to sell 'Huddud's House', the ancient house of his grandfather left to him by his uncle, as the sole remaining heir. The doctor, a heart surgeon, discovers an inheritance rich in cultural significance and some astonishing secrets concerning the present and past of the...
Jonah the calligrapher, the novel's hero, who is swallowed by the metaphorical whale, is likeable: a mixture of lover, rebel, adventurer and dreamer, who proceeds towards a grand goal. Alongside him are a host of characters who see him as he really is, while he is blind to his real self, since he is the Arab 'Don Quixote'.
1991: Two young girls meet and become best friends in a Baghdad bomb shelter where they have taken refuge from Allied aerial attacks. They share their hopes and dreams, interwoven with fantasy and illusion. The novel follows the girls through childhood, adolescence and university, until the war and the fall of Baghdad.
Composed by the great Sufi scholar when he was only 29-years-old, this work contains 14 visions on the nature of existence, true happiness, and the human relationship with the divine.
This work contains prayers for day and evening for each day of the week by Ibn 'Arabi, the great Sunni scholar of Islam, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher.
Another wise story from a wonderful new series of folktales for kids from early Arab heritage.