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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Rana DiOrio

    From standing up to bullies to Internet safety, this book offers young readers useful tips for being safe.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10
    Author:  Rana DiOrio

    Offers simple steps kids can take to be more environmentally friendly.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Colson Whitehead

    The Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award winner has been translated into Arabic.  Colson Whitehead's bestselling, magnificent story of a young slave's adventures as she makes a terrifying journey to freedom.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Jalal Bargas

    Longlisted for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this is a unique novel in six chapters. Each tells the story of a woman known by the protagonist through one of the human senses.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Fine arts, Natural Science, Health
    Author:  Oliver Sacks

    A New York Times bestseller in English, this is the Arabic translation Dr. Sacks' investigations of the power of music and its ability to heal human conditions like depression, amnesia and Alzheimer's.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Muhsin al-Ramli

    A collection of short stories published over thirty years (1985-2015) by Dr. Muhsin al-Ramli, an award-winning Iraqi poet and author.  He has been living in Spain since 1995.  Al-Ramli is well known for his complete translation of Don Quixote from Spanish to Arabic. Two of his novels were longlisted for the International Prize for...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Social Science
    Author:  Julius Lips

    An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultures from around the world.  Expertly researched by Julius Lips, a well-known anthropologist, this book reveals the foundations of tools, habits, traditions, fire, food, the use of cosmetics and jewelry,...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Social Science
    Author:  William James

    The controversial lecture, first published in 1896, defends the right to believe in something without proof or evidence of its truth.  William James was an influential American philosopher and psychologist who was a leading thinker in the late nineteenth century.  He is considered by many to be the "Father of American psychology."

    $16.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Historical fiction
    Author:  Ibrahim Eissa

    The saga of early Muslim conquest continues in historic novel, based on actual events, by the award winning Egyptian author and journalist, Ibrahim Eissa. This novel narrates the four-year civil war "First Fitna" that ensued after the assassination of Uthman ibn Affan in 656.  The end result was the birth of the Umayyad dynasty.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Historical fiction
    Author:  Ibrahim Eissa

    The author, Ibrahim Eissa, is an outspoken and controversial Egyptian journalist, TV personality, and author.  In addition to death threats, his ongoing fight for freedom of expression and the press has won him the 2010 Freedom of Expression Award and the International Journalist of the Year 2010.  This sweeping novel, based on actual...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Leonardo Padura

    A finalist for the Book of the Year Award in Spain, this is a gripping novel that tells the cat-and-mouse game that Stalin played with Trotksy from the time he was expelled from the Communist Party until his assassination in Mexico City. The "man" in the title who loved dogs is Ramon Mercader, Trotsky's killer.  This novel has been...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Culture
    Author:  Anis Mansour

    Anis Mansour was an Egyptian journalist, author and philosopher who held many editorial posts at newspapers and magazines throughout Egypt.  He could speak seven languages and throughout his career, interviewed many famous people from around the Middle East -- from presidents to generals to actors to singers to dissident writers.  This...

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