American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-15%In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
-15%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...
-15%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-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%Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
-20%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-20%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-15%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%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
-17%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
-20%Ideal for adult English language learners. Adult-themed dual language reader for new literates in Spanish and English. Ben is looking for a new apartment and checks it over thoroughly before signing the lease.
A humurous bilingual book in German and English. Mrs. Bear likes to relax and eat sticky buns, and she's kind of messy leaving sticky pawprints around the house. Mr. Rabbit, on the other hand, is very tidy and doesn't care for sticky things. Can they learn to get along?
Anne is about to turn 40 and for her birthday she has gathered all of her friends together for her ex-husband's funeral. Except Richard is not dead. The funeral is a symbolic parting of a love gone wrong followed by a big party. Soon divorced women everywhere are staging funerals and celebrating their freedom. Then Anne meets...
Jean Dost is a Syrian poet and novelist living in Germany. He won the Kurdish Poetry prize in Germany in 2012 and the Syrian Short Story Award in 1993. In this novel, a Kurdish rebel commander who was tasked with leading the Kurdish revolt against Turkey, a push for independence that ultimately failed, relives events and...
By multiple award-winning Moroccan author, Mohsin al-Wakili, this novel won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity. Despite the cover art, the story is set during the latter part of 16th century Morocco during the reign of the Saadi Dynasty. It was a time of disease, ignorance, and tyranny -- until the winds of change began to blow . . .
By Lebanese author, Rashid Daif, whose books have been translated into 13 languages with this title shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2017. A loosely biographical novel about a guy who tells his life story in the first person, from problems with his parents as a young man until he finally finds freedom in America and the love of his life.
Award-winning poet and novelist, Ibrahim Nasrallah has written a highly symbolic novel set in a corrupt, yet technologically advanced, dystopian society. At an unspecified time in the not so distant future, humans have accomplished the amazing in the world of technology, and yet they are unable to solve the problems of too little light and too...
The New York Times bestseller is now in Arabic. Evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins offers magical explanations for the wonders of nature and reveals the fantastical scientific truths behind them.
A heartwarming story about Mr. Albert who finds an abandoned seal pup on a rock in the middle of the sea. Naturally, Albert brings the seal home with him, but little does he realize how complicated it is to have a seal for a roommate!
This level 2 German easy reader is a chapter book about a local school that is putting on a school-wide festival with a circus theme. All the classrooms are contributing and Max and Luisa are planning a clown act with a fantastic magic trick. Perfect for the beginning reader of the German language.
An award-winning author, Fatimah Sharafeddine, and an award-winning illustrator, Fereshteh Najafi, have joined their creative forces to create a breathtaking story in rhyme about a little boy who is trying to find his physical place in the world.