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    In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...

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    This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...

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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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 3-5, Ages 6-10
    Author:  Muhannad Aqous

    A colorful story about spending time with friends.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Alia Mamdouh

    Shortlisted for the 2020 IPAF. Alia Mamdouh is an Iraqi writer who left Baghdad in 1982. She has published a short story collection and eight novels, and has been translated into English, French, Italian, and Spanish. This novel explores the relationship between people and the places that have been taken away from them.  She imagines her...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Azher Jirjees

    Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF.  This is the first novel by Iraqi author, Azher Jirjees.  He was working as a journalist when he wrote a satirical piece called Terrorism . . . Earthly Hell.  This was promptly followed by an assassination attempt and so he fled Iraq finally ending up in Norway.  Known for his two collections of...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Khalil Alrez

    Shortlisted for the 2020 IPAF. The Russian Quarter is a neighborhood that refuses to enter the war going on around it, until finally, after many years of resistance, it finally gets involved. Not in the traditional sense with weapons, but rather with stories. A grand menagerie of characters make up these stories including a giraffe from the zoo,...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Majid Shiha

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Sports
    Author:  Luciano Wernicke

    Everything you need to know about soccer in 100 obscure facts of football history.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Laila al-Atrash

    Winner of the 2019 Katara Prize for Arabic Novel, author Laila al-Atrash is a Palestinian/Jordanian writer and journalist who has served as the president of PEN Jordan. This novel is a moving love story between an Afghan doctor who flees to London to escape conflict and the oppression of women and a Palestinian engineer who has fled his life in...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Samir Kacimi

    Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF. This is the second novel by this author to be longlisted for the IPAF.  It uses magical realism to re-imagine the political history of Algeria and Arab history as a whole.  The lives of different characters intersect based on possible scenarios fate has ordained.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Historical fiction
    Author:  Salim Barakat

    Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF. This historical novel presents a panoramic view of Syria following the Six-Day War in 1967. It tells of life in the Jewish quarter of Qamishli and a teenage boy's love for a Jewish girl living there.

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  • Language:  Somali
    Subject:  History, Religion
    Author:  Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Qadir 'Arabfaqih

    A history of East Africa, including Ethiopia and Somalia, in the 16th century.  Includes bibliographical references.  Translated from the Arabic.  Arabic title translated as: Masterpiece of All Time.  

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  • Language:  Somali
    Subject:  Culture, Family
    Author:  Hibo Faarax

    An uplifting book for women about their importance in family life and society.

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  • Language:  Somali
    Subject:  Culture, Literature, Poetry
    Author:  Maxamed Sh Cismaan Maxabe

    A collection of poems, comedies, stories and songs from various Somali tribes.

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