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Dora Bruder
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TED Talks : offi..
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Pearl Button
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Decent one
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Origin of Things
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Thus Spoke Zarat..
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G : a novel
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A girl walks hom..
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Meditations of a..
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Advice from the ..
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Are you happy?
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 3-5Author: Rania Hussein AminWhen you have to stay home, you can be happy or unhappy. The choice is yours. When Mido was asked if he was happy, he cried and said no, he was so bored. Then he stormed off to his room, but as he sat there thinking about boredom, he suddenly got an idea! and then another and another!
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Wounds of the Soul and Body
Language: ArabicSubject: Short StoriesAuthor: Malika MoustadrafThe first book by the Moroccan feminist author, this novel deals with the traumas that women and girls face under the patriarchy, and how women come to support each other through it. Researcher and translator Alice Guthrie identified a "strong yet delicate and understated queer sensibility" in the writings of Moustadraf.
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Minor Detail
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Adaniyah ShibliAugust 1949, the commander of a military battalion is camping with his soldiers in a part of the Negev desert, suspected of being a passage for Arab infiltrators. After more than five decades, a Palestinian female employee embarks on a journey towards the Negev, seeking to uncover the circumstances of an incident that took place in that camp.
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Yahya Haqqi: Complete stories and novels
Language: ArabicSubject: Literature, Short StoriesAuthor: Yahya HaqqiYahya Haqqi, an award-winning writer and novelist who published four collections of short stories, a novel, and many articles. He is known for experimentation with various literary forms.
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The Naked Face of an Arab Woman
Language: ArabicSubject: Culture, Social Science, ReligionAuthor: Nawal El SaadawiThis work explores the causes of the brutality and oppression of women through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. It argues that the veil, polygamy and legal inequality are incompatible with the just and peaceful Islam. The woman depicted in ancient or modern Arabic literature is not the real Arab...
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Recipes for Sad Women
Language: ArabicSubject: Self-helpAuthor: Héctor Abad FaciolinceNo one knows the recipe for happiness—and yet Héctor Abad offers us a whole volume. His recipes, at times bizarre, at times wise, appear able to cure almost anything. With ingenuity and subtle humor, Abad proffers practical advice on how to fight sadness, attract joy, and retain delight. It's not a novel and it's not a cookbook. It...
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Farah's Story
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Ezzedine Choukri FishereFarah wakes up one morning to begin a day which will mark a turning point in her life. She will destroy the house where she spent her childhood and leave the only man she ever passionately loved. She will place her mother in an old people’s home and reject her daughter. Has Farah lost her mind, heart and humanity? Or is she trying to save...
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Language: ArabicChildren Books: Ages 11-13, Teen/YAAuthor: Jacqueline WoodsonRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Marriage Programming
Language: ArabicSubject: LifeStyle, Self-helpAuthor: IshtarA guide to help you program your marriage for success. What can you do to make your marriage success? How do you make each other happy? What do you need in order to arouse love in each other? This book offers advice based on real life situations.
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Rumi's Daughter
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Muriel MaufroyThe delightful novel about Kimya, the girl who was sent from her rural village to live in Rumi's home. She already had mystical tendencies, and learned a great deal under Rumi's tutelage. Eventually she married Shams, a strange man who was an unusual husband, almost totally absorbed by his longings for God
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Canada
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Richard FordThe unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel. After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a...
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In Search of Azar
Language: ArabicSubject: NovelsAuthor: Nizar AghriOne of the two main protagonists, Eid, reminisces about his boyhood and youth and his relationship with his close friend Azar, who left the city of Qamishli suddenly, with his Jewish family. Eid recalls how their special friendship began when they were young boys and how it developed and grew stronger, before the shock of parting. As he narrates...
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