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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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  • 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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Literature
    Author:  Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer, and film director, translated and adapted Sophocles story of Oedipus into a major motion picture. Pasolini add a modern-day prologue and epilogue to the famous myth as well as emphasizing the innocence of Oedipus. Pasolini was inspired by Sophocles contrast between total innocence and the obligation to...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Biography
    Author:  Zaki Jamal Shuk

    Mahasin Diwani returns home to Iraq after twenty years in exile to settle her deceased husband's affairs.  The country in her childhood memories is not the same country she returns to now.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Carol Mason

    A woman reeling from the sudden abandonment of her new husband while on their honeymoon tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. She returns to work at an art gallery and soon becomes friends with an elderly visitor whose life has haunting parallels to her own.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Historical fiction
    Author:  Adham Abbudi

    A novel about the transformative love and relationship between Maulana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi and Shams Tabrizi by Egyptian author,  Adham Abbudi.  Abbudi's novel, "The Labyrinth of the Awliya" was named a Best Arabic Book published in the 21st Century by the Arab Writers Union.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  History
    Author:  Amal BashshÅ«r

    An illustrated encyclopedia of the history of ancient Syria from the agricultural revolution to the end of the Bronze Age.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Erica Jong

    Another funny and daring novel by the author of "Fear of Flying."  In this hilarious, yet poignant novel, a former actress grapples with aging and end of life issues through youthful fantasies fulfilled on a website created by her best friend.

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  • Language:  Somali
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Cabdilqaadir Nuur Xuseen (Maax)

    A collection of 1,410 proverbs and short short stories from 100 years of Somali history and culture.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Children Books:  Ages 6-10, Ages 11-13
    Author:  Jeff Kinney

    When the Heffleys decide to escape the holidays and cold weather, they soon discover that an island paradise isn't as restful as they hoped.

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