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Drawing and Writing Guide Author's name: Jose Saramago Even though I know it will never end, I will not stop painting the second picture. I have diminished my experience, and there is no better proof of this defeat, failure, or helplessness than the paper...

Dangerous readings Author's name: Azar Nafisi In her book, "Dangerous Readings: The Powerful Power of Literature in Turbulent Times," Nafisi offers evidence of the power and influence of literature in difficult and turbulent times. This is done through a series of virtual letters she...

Ajam Author's name: Sinan Anton “Ijam is an amazing work because it conjures up a world of horror that we know and have read about before, but which often seems distant and unreal. It takes tremendous talent to make it specific, personal, and Iraqi....

index Author's name: Sinan Anton Time is a black hole. A hole into which things fall and disappear. Even the beginning of all this existence, according to one theory, was an explosion, and existence is nothing but fragments and shreds. And here we are...

Look at the lights, baby. Author's name: Annie Ernaux I stopped writing my diary. Like every time I stop recording the present, I have the feeling that I am withdrawing from the movement of the world, not only by abandoning my time, but also...

duck bill Author's name: Gilbert Sinoué This novel, “comes after [Sunset Island], to shed light on an important phase in Moroccan history, replete with tragic events, beginning with the conquest of Algeria, through the defeat of the Battle of Isly and the setback of...

Raqqa Author Name: David Funkenos Natalie had a certain reserve (and this is a kind of Swiss femininity) worthy of a girl who passed through adolescence smoothly, alert and cautious. When she reached the age of twenty, she began to look to the future...

yesterday Author's name: Agota Kristof The novel talks about the suffering of immigrants in a foreign country and their living conditions, their memories and dreams. These are characters who are not disconnected from their past, but at the same time, they expect nothing from...

The last secret Author Name: Jose Z. dos Santos Sicarius turned off his phone and took one last look to his right, taking in the Judean Desert, with the blue pool of the Dead Sea in the center. Then to his left, where the...

Evidence Author's name: Agota Kristof The novel "The Proof" by Hungarian writer Agota Kristof, is the second part of a trilogy, the first of which, "The Big Notebook," was published last year. This part deals with the fate of twin brothers who were separated...

Eugénie de Franval Author's name: Marquis de Sade One of the greatest advocates of absolute or extreme freedom, and a rebel against religion, values, virtue, customs, traditions and laws prevailing in his society... based on his own deep knowledge of society - and as...

hope Author's name: Gilbert Sinoué

occupation Author's name: Annie Ernaux Without a doubt, Annie Ernaux is today one of the most prominent and celebrated French novelists on the contemporary French literary scene. Each of her books is bound to generate a great deal of ink, press coverage, and criticism....

woman Author's name: Annie Ernaux This book is not a biography, nor, of course, a novel. Perhaps it is something that lies between literature, sociology, and history. It was necessary for my mother, who was born into an oppressive environment from which she had...

Dangerous Relationships Author's name: Pierre de Laclos The word "deception" also means the arrangement of events in a fictional book within a set of influential and directed tricks. The word always indicates that someone is making someone else believe something that is not true....

Diwan al-Hallaj Author's name: Al-Hussein Al-Hallaj Al-Hallaj, the martyr of divine love; Al-Hallaj was born: Al-Mughith Al-Hussein bin Mansour bin Muhammad Al-Baydawi in the village of Al-Tur in the northeast of the city of Al-Bayda, one of the cities of Fars Province in Iran...

Tales from the Widows' Village Author's Name: James Canyon On November 15, 1992, guerrillas storm Mariquita, a remote Colombian mountain village, forcing its men to join their ranks. Anyone who resists or refuses is immediately killed. Only widows and spinsters remain, along with the...

Magic Mountain Author's name: Thomas Mann Anyone who reads Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" is bound to experience suffering. The novel, published by Dar Al-Jamal and translated by Ali Abdul Amir Saleh, is nearly a thousand pages long and not only challenges the reader's...

simple passion Author's name: Annie Ernaux Despite the "simplicity" of the writing, it actually succeeds in raising many of these existential questions that surround us. It knows how to raise the "philosophical" question about our relationship with others, with sex, and even with writing...

Nine Essays on Dante Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges “Dante's Divine Comedy is not easy to read,” says Borges, “but with patience, it is very rewarding. First of all, there is a lot of suspense in it. It tells us about man's journey through...