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    Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Self-help
    Author:  Dean Burnett

    One in four of us experience a mental health problem each year, with anxiety and depression alone affecting over 500 million people worldwide. Why are these conditions so widespread? What is it about modern life that has such an impact on our mental health? And why is there still so much confusion and stigma around these issues?...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Qassem Tawfik

    The events of the novel take place in a café in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on the night of the start of the “Naksa” (Six-Day War), in June 1967. Wijdan, a nurse who works at Amman Hospital, takes refuge in the café at the moment the war breaks out and the sky is filled with smoke. She is forced to remain there to...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History
    Author:  Shakib Arslan

    A summary of the history of Islamic Spain when it was a place of science, arts, poetry, urbanization, and creative engineering. This was also the era of warring and frivolous emirs, which eventually led to the era's downfall.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Miral al-Tahawy

    The events of this novel are sandwiched between the suicide of Jamal, a young man torn between different identities, in the opening pages, and the suicide of Mimi, an African girl who has survived a massacre in her country, at the end of the novel. They take place in an imagined small town called Shining Sun on the southwestern border...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Naguib Mahfouz

    The time is 1942, World War II is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt. Against this backdrop, Mahfouz’s novel tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo’s colorful and bustling Khan al-Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German forces will...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Najwa Binshatwan

    A coming-of-age novel about a young girl in Libya, her extended family, and how their lives are affected by politics and war, in a narrative rich in characters and perspectives. Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Zahran Alqasmi

    Set in an Omani village, it tells the story of a water diviner employed by the villages to track springs of water hidden deep in the earth. Since birth, his life has had a profound connection with water: His mother drowned, and his father was buried when the roof of one of the water channels – or aflaj – collapsed on him....

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Rabia Raihane

    The novel is set in Morocco in the first half of the twentieth century. Farida relates memories of her childhood and growing up in ‘the family house’ built by her grandfather Kabour, a strong, brave and chivalrous man.  Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Bushra Khalfan

    Set in Muscat, the capital of Oman, in the first half of the twentieth century, the story is divided into three parts, each named after a district of the city. Dilshad, a young native of Muscat, of unknown parentage, grows up in extreme poverty in one of the Balochi areas of the city, experiencing Balochi as well as Arab culture. His daughter...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmed El-Fakharany

    In this satirical novel, the protagonist Nuh Al-Rahimi resorts to trickery to gain admittance to Bar Lialina, frequented by the cultural elite. He hopes that through emulating them, he will discover what makes them so intelligent, while he by contrast is an ignoramus with inferior creative ability. When his ruse is discovered, he is cruelly...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  May Telmissany

    With a quiet humor, this novel gets under the skin of five middle-aged, middle class Arab intellectuals living in Canada and America, following the twists and turns of their love lives as they question their choices in life and reflect on (un)faithfulness in romantic relationships. Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmad Abdulatif

    A dystopic allegory about the apocalypse, set in a nameless city of threads, or dolls, which might be a macabre projection of Cairo. The novel has a unique narrative and linguistic style, with frequent repeated refrains and a lack of punctuation when one of the characters speaks, reinforcing its uncanny, nightmarish quality. Longlisted for...

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