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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...

Self Author's name: Sana Allah Ibrahim The author narrates the life of "Dhat" in detail, detailing her daily concerns, from the "slap" of childbirth, to the discovery of the changes in her body, to her wedding night and her absurd, ridiculous job at a...

The rest Author's name: Abdel-Ilah bin Arafa With the release of this fourteenth novel, the author's pioneering project, whose novels span a period extending from the era of prophecy to the modern era, is complete. Writing with light, writing with the state, and writing...

Gaza is the only survivor Author's name: Ghada Al-Khoury If you're tired of the news about Gaza, why are you holding this book? Put it aside, it's not for the tired. If you are someone who is accustomed to scenes of massacres and starvation,...

Homeland is Palestine Written by: Basma Al-Khatib Palestinian girl Lilaas lives far from her homeland, a country she has never seen. When her teacher asks, "What is homeland?" Lilaas's journey to find an answer begins. Many people around her know things about the homeland....

Sami Hani Khawaja Author's name: Laura Maqdisi From under the rubble of his home in Achrafieh, Sami wondered how a person could remain loyal to themselves in the afterlife. He tried to remember whether he had come across this phrase in his father's books,...

camouflage Author's name: Adania Shibli No names, no places, no years, just the four seasons and the heat of the sun, which sometimes increases and sometimes takes pity on the heads, in a visual structure that explores the results of decades of colonialism and...

The Curse of the Flores Women Author's name: Angelica Lopez 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 takes place between modern-day Rio de...

The blond killer Author: Tariq Bakari Walid Marouf, a journalist who joined an extremist organization to write a report for a British magazine, was trapped with Al-Ashqar, the right-hand man of the organization's leader, inside a building in Kobani. Ashqar tells Walid the story...

blue flowers Author: Mona Habras Mona Habras writes articles according to the "easy yet challenging" rule, adept at adapting ideas, developing them, and presenting them in a straightforward, flowing style. This style pays attention to language without extravagance or exaggeration, keeping the idea present...

Permissible atmosphere Author: Ahmed Al-Salami Yemen's skies are turning into testing grounds for drones, which indiscriminately hunt down lives in the dead of night. In this way, Amer loses his sister and her three daughters, and finds himself in the midst of betrayals and...

My profession is storytelling Author: Haruki Murakami “One April afternoon in 1978, Haruki Murakami was sitting in the stands of Tokyo’s Jingu Stadium, watching a baseball game, when he had an epiphany that would change his life completely. It happened when a player on...

Seasons of sacrifices Author's name: Saleh Dima This is a novel whose chapters we witness every day, a story whose details we are part of, whether we realize it or not. The story of those who were rejected by their homelands and became nomads....

One year of isolation Author's name: Iman Al-Youssef Sarah had no idea that she would remain trapped in that port until she solved the mystery of Brian's letters, which had not been opened for more than two hundred years. And the strangest thing is...

My first love Author's name: Sahar Khalifa A tale of bitter love embodied in several aspects. One aspect appears in the story of a childhood love that budded in the stage of youth and the spring of life and returned to emerge and be...

Please replace the wreaths. Author's name: Mazen Haidar On a rainy winter day in 1985, Amina and Farid left their home in the Baydoun neighborhood of Beirut for the nearby Ain al-Rummaneh district, heading to visit Barjis, the skilled tape recorder expert. Only Barjis...

Thunder Child Author's name: Ghada Al-Khoury Who is that giant perched on her shoulders? Why did this black monster choose her over all others in the village? Why does it paralyze her limbs and tongue and only disappear when thunder comes and lifts her...

Narenja ⁩ Author: Jokha Alharthi   In her exile in the land of snow, "Zohour" relives the unfulfilled dreams of her grandmother. There, fate brings her together with "Suroor" and her sister "Kohl," and "Omran," Kohl's husband who fled his field in Pakistan. A...

Weeds Author's name: Dima Abdullah The novel, which was awarded by the jury of the ninth Lagardère Prize for Arabic Literature, begins in a school playground in Beirut during the civil war in 1983, as the shelling intensifies and families rush to retrieve their...

black milk Writing, motherhood and harem Author's name: Elif Shafak Black Milk is not just a journey through postpartum depression or the autobiography of a creative mother whose pen stopped producing words when she gave birth to her child. Rather, it is an experience...