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A Sky-Colored Mask, Part Three The Butterflies of Holy Mary Author: Basim Khandaqji In the final part of the Mirrors Trilogy, Basim Khandaqji focuses on the character of Maryam Fatim, who taught "Ohr" the Arabic language. The relationship between them evolved into an explosion...

Between Healing and Love Author: Dr. Hanadi Nawwaf Al-Basha   I started writing my story while I was in a hospital bed. Writing was a kind of balm from the psychotherapy sessions I needed. I was alone, accompanied in my illness only by a...

A Crime at Pension Bonneville Author: Noura Al-Balam   It was a fateful summer. I declared a challenge to myself, bid farewell to my closest friend, and we agreed that she wouldn't return from her vacation until she finished writing her novel. The truth...

Abdullah's Journey Author: Ahmed Abdullah Al-Hosani   In a quiet corner of life, Abdullah was born... A child who was not given the chance to see the world, but he made his silence a language that speaks of love, and his weakness a message...

Unforgivable Silence Author: Marwa Al-Musaifri   When Leah opened her eyes, it wasn't just absence that resided in her memory, but silence too. A novel that moves at a rapid pace through the corridors of hidden pain, where truth mixes with illusion, love becomes...

I wander in cities conquered by the darkness of your eyes Author Name: Paula Boulos Rbeiz (Jasmine Poet)   This is a book about poetry, love, and a journey through the impossible. The author takes readers on a quest to find the "Jasmine Poet"...

Two Scenes Author Name: Randa Al-Fateh (Shaya)   The book consists of two stories; one shorter than the other, both rooted in love, which is the origin of all things. The first is a spontaneous love in a humorous story that brings together an...

Branches of the Soul Author Name: Fatima Al-Mansouri   I wrote my book with a different spirit, telling real-life situations and stories from my life, not directly narrated, but felt. It navigates between love and loyalty, promise and sorrow, pain and helplessness, friendship and...

The Scream   Author: Radwa Ashour   “Messages of pessimism are an immoral act.” This simple yet profound statement is conveyed by the Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour to the reader through the pages of her recently published book, “Heavier Than Radwa… Excerpts from an...

A Crime at the University   Author: Ezzedine C. Fishere   The events of this novel revolve around the investigation into the murder of Dr. Yara Refky, a professor of cultural studies at the International University. The story begins before the crime takes place,...

The Backstreets   Author: Abdel Rahman El-Sharkawy   "The Backstreets" is considered one of the most important works that vividly portrays the Egyptian reality during the late 1930s and early 1940s, with all its uprisings and movements. In a distinctive narrative, the great writer...

The Dog's Head Epic   Author: Mohamed Abu Zeid   "The Dog's Head Epic" revolves around "Dou" and "Lubna," two young friends in the early stages of youth, discovering the world together and embarking on life's experiences with spontaneity. They navigate downtown streets, cafes,...

Shadow Phantoms   Author: Mansoura Ez-Eldin   In “Shadow Phantoms,” we are faced with a game of assumptions and imaginings, the orchestrator of which is not entirely clear: Camellia? Olga? Or an unseen narrator who moves everyone between real and imaginary cities, delving into...

The Family House   Author: Samia Serageldin   An astonishing and perplexing novel about the struggle of a prominent Egyptian family to cope with the upheaval following World War II in Cairo. Gigi grew up in one of Garden City's magnificent palaces, home to...

Fatima's Piano and the Search for a New National Totemic Animal   Author: Mohamed El-Makhzangy   The Search for a New National Totemic Animal, a novella and a dedication ranging from romance steeped in sweet melancholy to satire glowing with cunning humor, presents two...

The Exile of Arabs   Author: Youssef Ziedan     Youssef Ziedan is an Egyptian thinker and novelist with a professorship in philosophy, history, and science. He has published over sixty books, and his works have received numerous international awards. His most famous novel,...

The Mexican Wife   Author: Eman Yehia     This novel not only tells the untold story of the relationship and marriage between a prominent Egyptian writer and a Mexican girl, the famous daughter of Diego Rivera, one of the most important muralists of...

The Day Before the Setback   Author: Iman Yahya     A novel that tells of a time of wandering dreams. Three years before June '67, full of events and pregnant with what was to come. The story of Karima, Hamza, and Abdel Moaty,...

Moses' Cross   Author: Haitham Dabour     "And why all these prohibitions? Weren't most of the Lord's Ten Commandments to His spokesman Moses prohibitions? Eight, to be exact. Didn't He do it with Adam and Eve concerning His blessed tree? Prohibitions always precede...

Kimiya   Author: Walid Alaa El-Din     "I have known Kimiya since she came to us as a child who had just left her father's sheep to graze, a soul exposed to what we cannot see. Some described her as mad, while others...