The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%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...
-10%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-15%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%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
-15%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%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%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 biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
-15%In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...
-35%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
-15%This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
-20%George is a dog with the best intentions to be a "good dog." His owner, Harry, hopes that George will behave when he is left alone during the day, and George tries really hard, but loves cake. And he loves to chase cats. And he loves to dig up flowers. Oh no, George! Translated from English.
The many adventures of Pippi, the girl with upside-down braids and no parents to tell her what to do. Translated from Swedish.
Princess Magnolia is no ordinary princess sitting have tea and scones. No, she is also the Princess in Black and she transforms into her alter ego whenever the monster alarm rings. But can she defeat the monster before the nosy duchess discovers the true identity of the Princess in Black? Translated from English.
Now available in Arabic! Game of Thrones, book one of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". An epic masterpiece of lords and ladies, assassins and bastards, soldiers and witchcraft, with a dragon or two or three thrown in for good measure. This product is one book in two volumes.
This is the story told by a mother to her daughter. When fundamentalists sweep through Raqqa, Sara is forced, as a Christian married to a Muslim, to flee. Through the story of her journey we gain an insight into the fear experienced by those forced to leave their country. Longlisted for the 2016 IPAF.
A spotlight on the inhabitants of the palm groves and marshlands of Basra, Iraq. As Basra reels with destruction and death, the terrified Ramzi and Ahlam cut a path through the devastated city, fleeing from soldiers. Their story is just one amongst a collection of disparate tales about characters from Basra's underworld. Longlisted for the 2016...
A dark fantasy which imagines “the counter revolution" in Egypt as a reality in a nightmarish future. The eponymous hero of this fantasy novel is an officer who witnessed the defeat of the police in Cairo on the 28 January 2011. Over a decade later, Egypt is occupied by a mysterious power and the remnants of the old police force are...
Aabir is a hospital undertaker who works in the morgue by day and the operating theatre by night, where he plucks out and sells the gold teeth he finds in the corpses’ mouths. However, he lives in a state of constant dread because of his past. One day, Aabir is kidnapped from the morgue with no idea about where he is, who has taken him or...
This is the true story of Yasmeena, a young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Yasmeena's shocking journey is a tale of the madness of war, of the sexual brutality unleashed by chaos, and of one woman’s courage to stand in danger’s way to aid her fellow sufferers. This is an explicit, graphic, and...
A manuscript is abandoned at sea by its author. The manuscript relates what happens as it tries to reunite with its author. Weaved together with this are the adventures contained within the manuscript’s pages: a story of copyists fleeing a city called the City of Injustice, which is dominated by extremists ruled by the head of a censorship...
An experimental novel with original illustrations about life in Cairo. This book has been challenged on moral grounds in Egypt and the author is currently in prison. Click here for more information and an excerpt in English. Winner: PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award 2016.