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Oh beautiful world, where are you? Author's Name: Sally Rooney Novelist Alice meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he would like to travel with her to Rome. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, tries to overcome the pain of...

The most beautiful word Author's name: Oddur Ava Ólaofsdóttir When Icelanders were asked, in a poll, to choose the most beautiful word in their language, they didn't hesitate to choose the noblest profession name, "midwife," which in Icelandic literally means "mother of light." In...

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...

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...

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...

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...

بعد وفاة والديها بسبب وباء التيفوس، تعيش سعدية بضياف (الريميتي) طفولة قاسية في شوارع سيدي بلعباس، وسط الفقر والخوف والجشع العائلي وآثار الحروب. تقودها إرادتها إلى المزارع الإسبانية، ثم إلى العمل لدى عائلة «مارشال» الأميركية التي تجد لديها شيئًا من الأمان والرعاية. هناك تكتشف...

تتبدَّل الأزمنة وتتباعد الأمكنة، وتظلّ معاناةُ ضحايا الحروبِ والأزمات الإنسانيّة واحدة: فهذا صامويل يغادر النمسا هربًا من قبضة النازية قبَيْل اندلاع الحرب العالمية الثانية؛ وهذه ليتيسيا تَعْبُر النهرَ مُتشبِّثةً بعنقِ أبيها هربًا من الحوادث المُروِّعة التي طالَت قريتها الصغيرةَ في السلفادور؛ وهذه آنيتا تسافر...

يرثُ جوليان موريل، من أمِّه بالتبنّي، أثرًا يردُّه إلى جذوره: خاتمًا إفريقيًّا، وصورًا ورسائل من أمِّه البيولوجيَّة، ومخطوطًا يعود، على الأرجح، إلى والده، وينفتح على السمارة في مطلع القرن العشرين؛ حيث الصحراءُ ذاكرة، والأسطورةُ مصير، والعبوديَّةٌ فتنةٌ دامية، والحبُّ سحرٌ أسود.لكنَّ ما يبدأ تحقيقًا...

إصبعٌ زائدةٌ في جسدٍ ميِّت؛ كانت علامةً كافيةً ليتعرَّف الأبناءُ إلى أمِّهم. وفي الحجرتَيْن المتجاورتَيْن امرأتان، تمنَّت كلُّ واحدةٍ منهما حياةَ الأخرى.النهر الباكي لم يرتوِ من حليب المرأة الهنديَّة، ولم يتعلَّم العجوزان معنى الفراق. هنا لا يحفلُ أحدٌ بجوع النساء المتروكات في غياب الرجال...

".. و حين دق الجرس مرة أخرى و فتح باب الغرفة الصغيرة, صعد ألي صمت القاعة, ذلك الصمت و ذلك الشعور الفريد الذي داخلني حين لاحظت أن الصحفي كان قد أشاح بعينيه. ولم أنظر باتجاه ماري. لم يتح لي الوقت لذلك, لأن الرئيس قال...

The Tale of Mr. Screw   Author: Soumer Shehadeh   Mamdouh Haddad is a forbidden writer searching for a motive to write, after the regime adopted reforms that allowed freedom of expression. The censor, however, follows Haddad's articles and reads his novel, attempting to...

The Night His Excellency Disappeared   Author: Abdelilah Benarafa   After completing his foundational project, the author tackles a different subject in this novel, with a new narrative style in both form and content. It is a novel that continues the author's project in...

A Mask, the Color of the Sky Part Three   Author: Basim Khandaqji

People of Water and Fire   Author: Tarek El-Ariss   A biography written by Tarek El-Ariss from the brink of collapse, from a moment when the body stumbles, and the tools of analysis and theories of language and philosophy that the writer mastered fail...

The Ticket Seller   Author: Walid Daqqah   It is not an autobiography that a martyr, fighter, and intellectual like Walid Daqqah writes about his life, but rather, he may have written his life as a biography of suffering, and a tale of humanity....

The curse of the Flores women Author: Angelica Lopes Seven generations of women from the Flores family live under a gypsy curse: all men who join the family, whether through marriage or birth, die prematurely. The story unfolds between modern-day Rio de Janeiro and...

On the writing bed Author: Nasser Abu Srour Write, if you truly have something to say. Write, for behind you lies half a century of marginalization and isolation, and before you is the paper... How easy life in prison becomes, and how easy death...

Stranger in the land Author: Wasini al-Araj "The Book of the Emir: The Paths of the Iron Gates" (2005) achieved widespread readership. It was considered the first fictional novel about Emir Abdelkader. Shortly after its publication, it won two major awards: the Librarians' Award...

The sea The sea Author: Iris Murdoch Charles Arome, a demigod of the theater—director and actor—withdraws from his glamorous life in London... to become an activist... Iris Murdoch follows the events within the context of a philosophical and analytical vision that represents English society...