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I called her "the serenity of randomness"... based on the chaos of her conversations and her disheveled appearance from head to toe. I gave her what I could from my pocket and withheld what I couldn't, and she celebrated the giving and withholding with...

"Khaj" hadn't done anything else to offend the iron-fisted regime's grip on its people. He hadn't demonstrated, he had never been the reason for the shooting and tear gas, and being placed like that on the back of a security vehicle was a major...

In the worlds of Taj Al-Sir, there is a reality steeped in its realism and a fantasy that runs wild in its frivolity. There, in that space of sharp contradictions, tragedy coexists with sarcastic humor. There, newborns are thrown into landfills, but there, too,...

Dying at the Edge of Memory—What happened there, on that land that was home to these people and became a promise to others? That land, before it became an issue and a conflict, was like all lands, embracing all backgrounds and religions. Then came...

That was the first love of my life, for a face I knew no other. Her laughter led me to untangle details, her displeasure led me to connect them, sleeping beside her brought peace to the night, looking at her face in the moments...

When silence reigns between us, his face seems to me like a word on the tip of my tongue, and I'm always afraid of feeling superior to him. One often feels superior to someone who's had a bad day. Even offering consolation and consolation...

Young with small dreams. Old with bigger worries. Fathers, mothers, football fans, Monica Bellucci lovers, poor people living on one meal a day, seekers of freedom or identity... it doesn't matter. The boat has room for everyone. The boat promises a beach. And the...

Successful in your career. Stable in your life. You have a roof over your head, and a few things... but you're not completely satisfied. There's something missing, or perhaps too much. You're not alone in this state of dissatisfaction. Jonathan is like you. Or...

They are women who fight silent wars every day for survival. They pay with their own flesh the price of a heavy legacy of alleged social values, and with their lives they pay the bills of a system built on the ruins of their...

In the late period of the Zaidi Imamate in Sana'a and the British occupation of Aden, an alliance between Yemeni tribal sheikhs and some religious scholars led to the domination of both parties over a vulnerable population and another marginalized group known as Akhdam...

The life of Shanouq, this strange, mysterious man, unfolds before us through the women in his life. Through them, the novel explores stages in Yemen's political history, from before unification to secession again. Then comes Saleh's victory over the al-Beidh group in the north...

Shams, an elderly artist, lost the hand he uses for drawing in the explosion that targeted the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, leading to his assassination. As a child, he lived in Cuba. As a teenager, he lived with...

Samia looked at her watch: half past two. Strange... it's unlike Nabil to be late without informing her. She had barely finished her thoughts when the doorbell rang. She rushed to the door. It was Suha. Did Aunt Aziza drop you off? Samia asked...

Balqis, Youssef, Walid, Ghassan. Four characters, four faces. Four questions about meaning. And four projections trying to confront the dilemma of existence. Youssef the poet escapes from the ordinariness of his existence to a skillfully crafted image that he cannot reach. Walid the rebel...

On the first Thursday of 1981, a large shell accidentally hit Kevork's house, causing a fire that consumed its entire contents. Inside his charred home, which he came to inspect a few days later, Kevork would realize that he had now lost everything. He...

What kind of ending seeks a beginning? The action in this novel was supposed to launch from here, but the beginning kept being delayed, and the ending kept coming forward. This is a novel about a woman in the autumn of her life, who...

America has entered Iraq. The war is raging. Saddam is hiding, directing operations from behind the scenes. But he will suddenly appear one midnight at a dentist's office with a toothache, and will watch from the window overlooking Firdos Square as his statue and...

A university campus under the weight of a blizzard. Friends united by a tragic secret. A girl kidnapped by the night. Côte d'Azur, winter 1992: On a bitter winter night, as a violent blizzard paralyzed campus life, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell, once known as the...

In 1999, after three highly successful novels, acclaimed novelist Nathan Fowles announces his retirement from writing and seeks refuge on the picturesque Mediterranean island of Beaumont in search of peace. In the fall of 2018, journalist Mathilde Monnet breaks out of this isolation, driven...

He is an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, in a building that has ceased to be ordinary since the military occupied it and transformed it into a security site, just as they transformed his life into successive scenes from a play belonging to...

In the heart of a country raging with war and violence, a small group is waging its own war. The place: a psychiatric hospital. The time: a time of siege between two battles. The heroes: a crew filming a movie. A group of corrupt...

In war, identities are lost. You may acquire a new identity by choice, or an identity may be imposed on you because of a mere mistake. A veiled woman, under the yoke of a male-dominated husband, a strict religious group, and an intolerant family,...

There are those who own their lives from birth. A solid, cohesive life, in warm homes filled with reassurance. And there are those who live in houses of cards, fragile, shaky, uprooted by the breeze. Yasmina was stumbling over the tails of her story...

Two days after arriving in town, Reham informed me in a garbled phone call that she had found the remains of the marble headstone bearing her father's name, but that she hadn't yet located the grave and that she wouldn't return until she had...

I recall with some surprise the actions of Abdul Azim Shodak, the lame, nearly deaf mechanic in his forties, who was once found inside the delivery room, his skin smelling of grease and old engine oil. He was wearing thin reading glasses, available anywhere,...

I was born into a Shakespearean family, between a father who spent forty years in the service of the king, and a brother banished to one of his prisons. Imagine a terrifying and magical palace where even the most loyal of its loyalists are...

In this satirical novel set against a love story backdrop, a visiting Spanish lecturer delves into the depths of the famous university of Oxford and its community. A sense of alienation separates him from the place he has arrived in. A space of doubt...

My mother, lying in her bed, told me that forty years ago she had been a domestic cat. She looked at me, and I at her. She continued, remembering that day vividly; she had been asleep on her favorite couch in her mistress Maha's...

While this recurring saying, “No one knows in what land they will die,” haunts me, I get lost in the mystery of the plot of land where Abu Saad could be buried. Where is it located? Does it bear a lofty headstone, as everyone...

What does it mean to live in Jerusalem today, carrying the legacy of an ancient tribe that left the wilderness in two previous parts of Mahmoud Shukair's trilogy: "The Family Horse" and "In Praise of the Women of the Family"? Grandchildren and great-grandchildren don't...