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    Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

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  • Culture
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    Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Walid Shurafa

    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...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Amin Zaoui

    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...

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

    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).

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Fadi Azzam

    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...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Rasha Adly

    A human hair is found in a painting during restoration of a French painting.  Who does it belong to?  The beloved Egyptian military commander Zaynab Bakri or the artist?

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Amjad Nasser

    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'. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Antoine Douaihy

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Shahad Al Rawi

    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.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature, Spirituality
    Author:  Ibn al-Arabi

    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.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Spirituality
    Author:  Ibn al-Arabi

    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.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Talal Hassan

    Another wise story from a wonderful new series of folktales for kids from early Arab heritage.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Talal Hassan

    Another story full of wisdom and humor, from a wonderful new series of folktales for kids from early Arab heritage.

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