Books

In "The Metamorphosis," and the other stories in this book, the reader is confronted with stories that represent an existential crisis and point to a division that occurs as a result of several accumulated factors. This separates consciousness from the unconscious, and human alienation...

Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi (310-414 AH / 922-1023 AD) was a Sufi philosopher, a Muslim, and a brilliant man of letters, one of the prominent figures of the fourth century AH. He spent most of his life in Baghdad, and is associated with it. Abu...

The events of this novel take place in the last days of the Soviet Union, when Russian society was exhausted by wars, and then came the era of openness, promising a different world. The Russian writer Oleg Roy, a contemporary Russian author who published...

Coinciding with the 191st anniversary of his birth in September 1828, Afaq Publishing House released the first volume of the diaries of the world-renowned Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, translated by the young Egyptian Youssef Nabil, who had previously translated novels by Tolstoy, Chekhov, and...

How did early Greeks view the soul and mind? And how did Muslim philosophers develop these insights in light of Islamic philosophy and the rational sciences? In this book, Mahmoud Qassem takes us on an intellectual journey extending from Plato and Aristotle to Al-Farabi,...

The Book of the Soul is one of Aristotle's most important works, as it remained the cornerstone of ancient psychology until the nineteenth century. In it, he expounds the methodology to be followed in psychology and presents a summary of his general doctrine of...

It covers all the birds known to humanity up to the time of Farid ud-Din Attar. The book begins by recounting how these birds gathered one day and decided to search for a bird to crown as their king. The desired bird is the...

Isagoge is the title of the book authored by Porphyry of Tyre to serve as an introduction to logic. Porphyry of Tyre was a philosopher born in the city of Tyre and is considered one of the most prominent representatives of Neoplatonism, a name...

"Christ Recrucified" is a social psychological novel, a magnificent work of art penned by a skilled and established writer. It possesses artistic delicacy, vibrant strength, and a poetic touch in its refined portrayal of Christ's suffering. It is an epic depiction of humanity's struggle...

In these precious pages, Al-Hakim Al-Tirmidhi skillfully weaves together the delicate threads between body and soul, between striving against the self and knowing God. The treatises on asceticism (Al-Riyadah) and soul refinement (Adab Al-Nafs) are not merely educational texts, but rather a window into...

This book is one of the most important works Aristotle left us and has been studied by scholars in both the East and the West. In it, Aristotle appears closer to a scientist than a philosopher. His views on ethics are entirely derived from...

Joblin was born in 1988, when his grandfather was 47 years old. The grandfather lived to see his grandson embark on a journey that confined him to a small circle of 21st-century vagabonds who called themselves "The Roaming Boys." It is a journey into...

"The Land of Sad Oranges" deeply embodies the tragedy of Palestinian refuge after the 1948 Nakba. The collection includes a number of short stories that document the initial moments of despair and chronicle the harsh transformation from a stable life to a reality of...

"Umm Sa'ad" presents a vivid picture of the simple Palestinian woman who transforms into a symbol of resistance and steadfastness.The novel employs a simple and direct style, blending narrative with reflection, as the narrator offers an intimate portrayal of daily life in the camp...

"The Stolen Shirt" reveals, in a simple yet powerful manner, the harshness of poverty and the distortion it inflicts upon human values.In it, Kanafani does not present theft as merely a crime, but rather as a natural outcome of an unjust social reality, where...

"Men in the Sun" represents a milestone in modern Arabic literature due to its profound symbolic and human depth.The novel's strength lies in its intense symbolism: the tank becomes a metaphor for the stifling Arab situation, the desert reflects harshness and loss, while the...

The novel "Returning to Haifa" is a short, deeply significant text that addresses the issue of identity and return from a complex human and intellectual perspective.The novel is characterized by a concise structure and direct yet charged language, where the personal event transforms into...

"All That's Left to You" is one of the most prominent works by Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. It is a short, condensed text that combines psychological depth and political symbolism simultaneously.The novel employs a multi-narrative technique, with voices alternating between characters, and even the...

"Death of Bed Number 12" by the Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani is a dense narrative work belonging to the humanitarian realism for which he was renowned. The text uses the hospital setting as a symbolic stage, where "Bed Number 12" becomes a focal point...

Four years after the publication of his novel "Mawlana" – shortlisted for the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the "Booker") – Ibrahim Essa returns to address the unspoken aspects of Islamic history. In a captivating narrative and extremely thrilling events, he skillfully connects...