American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%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%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-15%The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
-20%Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...
-17%Chris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...
-15%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%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%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%Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd. He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...
-15%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
-15%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
-15%Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF (Hammam Dhahab). When members of the Jewish minority in Tunis flee to France to avoid the Germans, they hide their historical documents in the ground below the Turkish bath (hammam). Years later, one of these Jewish descendents embarks on a journey to discover her roots and returns to Tunis. As she begins her...
Shortlisted for the 2020 IPAF, this is the story of the murder of Zakaria Mubarak who has just returned to his village after a long exile abroad. In his possession is a painting by Marc Chagall that was a gift from his French girlfriend. Cousins are the suspected murderers in this absorbing novel about murder, rumors of buried treasure,...
Longlisted for the 2020 IPAF, this novel by award-winning Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa tells the story of two survivors of a flood that sweeps through the environs of Aleppo in 1907. Hanna and Zakaria must find a way to go on with their lives despite their losses. Their small simple lives are set against the wider backdrop of the...
Winner of the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this is the second novel by this Algerian author. It follows the lives of five interconnected characters in Algiers from 1815 to 1833, the era of the French colonial campaign. As the city of Algiers is transformed, it becomes clear to each of these characters that you either...
A sweeping historical novel from the era when the Mamluks ruled Egypt. Mamluks were a warrior class of slave soldiers that rose to power and ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. They are known for having defeated the western European Christian Crusaders and formally ending the era of the Crusades in 1302.
A new Arabic translation of the French novel about a man with strange fetishes who wanders aimlessly around the streets of Paris after he loses his job.
The concept and meaning of love is explored through the writings of various philosophers from Sartre to Heidegger and Tolstoy to Einstein.
A new dark psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Dean Koontz. When a young woman is told by her doctor that she has one year to live, she responds with by making an astonishing recovery. She is told she escaped death to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. But who is Ashley Bell? From...
The author, Hermann Frederick Eilts was a U.S. foreign service officer, diplomat, and former American ambassador to Saudia Arabia, Bangladesh, and Egypt. This book, originally published in 1980, tells the story of Ahmad bin Na'aman's mission to the United States in 1840 on the ship Al-Sultanah. Na'aman, sent by the Sultan of Oman, was the...
A little chameleon visits the zoo and wishes he could be a different animal.
A funny story about telling the truth by award-winning author Tim Hopgood.
Named Young Adult Book of the Year 2016 by Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature. Two friends, Louza and Romana, live in an apartment building with four apartments. None of the residents get along and there is constant yelling and fighting among them. The two girls put their heads together to come up with a solution to establish...