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The Shell: Diary of a Voyeur
The Shell: Diary of a Voyeur Author's name: Mustafa Khalifa This is a novel within the prison literature genre by Mustafa Khalifa. This novel is considered one of the most famous Arabic prison literature novels, as it has been translated into 10 languages, including...- Dhs. 63.00
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The Forty Rules of Love
The Forty Rules of Love Author's name: Elif Shafak The novel's heroine, Ella, the unhappy wife, turns forty when she reads a novel about the life of Jalal ad-Din Rumi and his Sufi master, Shams of Tabriz. She is captivated by Shams's rules, which...- Dhs. 73.00
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Women's Charter
Women's Charter Author's name: Hanin Al-Sayegh Governed by fear and powerlessness, Amal Bounemr lives a conservative rural life in her Druze village in Mount Lebanon, where many of life's questions escape into religiosity and isolation. Her father, a sheikh by profession and a blacksmith,...- Dhs. 67.00
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Sersi
Sersi Author Name: Madeleine Miller Ever since Circe was born into the house of Helios, the sun god and the most powerful of the Titans, she has been an outsider. Not as terrifyingly powerful as her father, nor as greedy as her mother, but...- Dhs. 79.00
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The Island of Missing Trees
Island of Lost Trees The Island of Missing Trees Author's name: Elif Shafak Translator: Ahmed Hassan Al-Muaini Elif Shafak brings to life a touching story resembling Romeo and Juliet, and the plot reaches its climax when Kostas is sent to London by his mother...- Dhs. 89.00
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Atlas of Impossible Nostalgia
Atlas of Impossible Nostalgia Author Name: Anuradha Roy This Indian novel has been translated into sixteen international languages. It is a creative portrayal of a local culture in which the ancient past blends with the present, which cannot be undone and cannot escape the...- Dhs. 94.00
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Minor detail
Minor detail Author's name: Adania Shibli August 1949, a military battalion commander and his soldiers camp in a spot in the Negev desert, suspected of being a passageway used by Arab infiltrators. More than five decades later, a Palestinian female employee embarks on a...- Dhs. 42.00
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Three Daughters of Eve
Three Daughters of Eve Author's name: Elif Shafak Perry was on her way to a dinner party in Istanbul when a beggar accosted her and snatched her handbag. As she wrestled with him to get it back, a Polaroid photo of three young women...- Dhs. 75.00
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Orientalism - Edward Said
Orientalism Author's name: Edward Said House of Literature Edward Said's seminal work, Orientalism (1978), examines the view of the "Orient" by a group of Western writers, some of whom have close ties to the imperialist establishment. Thus, the "Orient" is portrayed with all the...- Dhs. 99.00
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disturbing love
disturbing love Author: Elena Ferrante My mother drowned on the night of May 23rd, my birthday. Elena Ferrante begins her narrative with this harsh, shocking phrase, reminiscent of the opening of Kafka's Metamorphosis and Camus's The Stranger. The heroine then delves into investigative research...- Dhs. 40.00
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plague
plague Author's name: Albert Camus A true story that took place in 1940 AD in Oran, Algeria. It includes a vivid description of the nature of Algeria and the Algerian people, their customs, traditions, and struggle in their struggle against colonialism, backwardness, and hunger,...- Dhs. 49.00
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Istanbul's bastard
Istanbul's bastard Author's name: Elif Shafak A novel about the women of the Kazanci family who live in a large house: Zeliha, the younger sister who owns a tattoo parlor, and Asya's foundling mother; Banu, who has recently discovered her talents as an astrologer;...- Dhs. 73.00
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Daughter of Luck
Daughter of Luck Author's name: Isabel Allende The author weaves the threads of this novel's events, moving between Chile, China, and California, in a specific historical era. In the nineteenth century, dreams of discovering gold were vast and dangerous in California, where the orphaned...- Dhs. 75.00
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The Loved Boy and the Teacher - Elif Shafak
The Loved Boy and the Teacher Author's name: Elif Shafak Translated by: Dr. Muhammad Darwish The Passionate Boy and the Teacher is a novel by Elif Shafak. The worlds of this novel are strange and wonderful, as the novelist moves here to the world...- Dhs. 89.00
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The girl who doesn't like her name
The girl who doesn't like her name Author's name: Elif Shafak Sardonia is a smart and creative girl, but she has one problem: she hates her name, which means a type of flower, which makes her classmates make fun of her. She finds loyal...- Dhs. 65.00
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There are rivers in the sky
There are rivers in the sky Author's name: Elif Shafak A lost poem, two great rivers, and three extraordinary lives, all linked by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, fragments of a long-forgotten poem lie buried beneath the sand. An...- Dhs. 84.00
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazari and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tsukuru Tazari Colorless and his years of pilgrimage Author's name: Haruki Murakami Five high school friends who are almost inseparable. Coincidentally, their names all refer to a color. The first is Akamatsu (meaning: red pine), the second is Omi (meaning: blue sea), the third...- Dhs. 67.00
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The old man who read romance novels
The old man who read romance novels Author's name: Luis Sepulveda Antonio José Bolívar Yeruanho is the only one capable of hunting the cat that kills people. He knows the Amazon jungle and respects the animals that inhabit it. He lived with the Shuarí...- Dhs. 38.00
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Bab al-Shams
Bab al-Shams Author's name: Elias Khoury In "Bab Al-Shams", Elias Khoury continues to narrate the journey of rain, death and mud, displacement, camps and people weaving with life... dreaming of a homeland, but Nahla says there will be no homeland before we all die......- Dhs. 67.00
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Hind or the most beautiful woman in the world
Hind or the most beautiful woman in the world Author: Hoda Barakat The mother lost her firstborn, Hind, of exceptional beauty. When her second daughter, Hanadi, was afflicted with acromegaly, the resemblance that had promised the mother that she would bring the absent child...- Dhs. 58.00
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The Infinite Invention of Books in Papyrus
The invention of books Infinite in Papyrus Author: Irene Vallejo If there were a copy of “One Thousand and One Nights” about books and writing, it is right here in your hands, in these pages written by researcher, novelist, and storyteller Irene Vallejo, “the...- Dhs. 115.00
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Haizia
Haizia Author's name: Wasini Al-A'raj The novel reconstructs the well-known Algerian love story of "Haizia," sung by most Algerian artists of all generations. The story actually took place in the Ziban oases in the second half of the 19th century. After extensive research by...- Dhs. 60.00
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There is no young man but Ali
There is no young man but Ali Author's name: Abdel-Ilah bin Arafa The author takes us on his mystical project to the first century AH, through a new narrative architecture with a major pivotal character. The novel begins with the birth of Ali ibn...- Dhs. 64.00
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How to Keep Our Sanity in a Divided Age
How to Keep Our Sanity in a Divided Age Author's name: Elif Shafak Translated by: Ahmed Hassan Al-Moaini In this powerful and inspiring plea for conscious optimism, novelist and activist Elif Shafak draws on her own memories and delves into the power of stories...- Dhs. 35.00
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honor
honor Author's name: Elif Shafak Bambi leaves Turkey, leaving her twin sister behind, and follows her beloved husband, Adam, to London. The Kurdish Tobruk family, in exile, tries in vain to break away from the traditions and beliefs that haunt them until the last...- Dhs. 84.00
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Eva Luna
Eva Luna Author's name: Isabel Allende Eva Luna, the heroine of this captivating book, is an orphan girl who works as a maid and trades her material poverty for the richness of her imagination. She loves telling stories and turns her life into a...- Dhs. 70.00
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Candy Palace
Candy Palace Author's name: Elif Shafak Translator's name: Muhammad Darwish Dessert Palace is the second novel by Turkish writer Elif Shafak. It is more like a short story, connected by the setting: an old palace in Istanbul inhabited by residents who are very different...- Dhs. 84.00
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10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World Novel
10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World Novel Author's name: Elif Shafak The novel begins with the heroine, Laila, brutally murdered and her body dumped in a garbage dump. The events unfold during the final 10 minutes and 38 seconds during which...- Dhs. 75.00
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My Diary in Women's Prison
My Diary in Women's Prison Author's name: Nawal El Saadawi Because I was born in this time, it was not surprising that I went to prison. I committed all the crimes... I wrote stories, novels, and poetry. I have published scientific and literary research,...- Dhs. 55.00
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Runaway horses
Runaway horses Author's name: Yukio Mishima “Runaway Horses” is a complete and self-contained novel, yet it is strongly linked with its three other sister novels, “Spring Snow,” “The Temple of Dawn,” and “The Fall of the Angel,” to form Mishima’s masterpiece, a rare example...- Dhs. 67.00
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