Dar Al Saqi Publishing House

Reading memory Author's name: Alberto Manguel In June 2015, Manguel prepared to leave his old country house in France's Loire Valley for a small apartment in Manhattan. While moving his extensive personal library and choosing which books to keep, store, or discard, Manguel found...

A Reading Diary   Author: Alberto Manguel While traveling in Calgary and reading Goethe's novel "Elective Affinities," Alberto Manguel was struck by how much the novel reflected the social chaos of the world he lived in. A passage in the novel could suddenly illuminate...

Sophia Author: Mohammed Hasan Alwan Mu'taz, a man in his thirties, doesn't draw attention or provoke questions. He suffers from a deep internal state, the nature of which he doesn't understand – perhaps a defect in the optic nerve, a rebellion in memory cells,...

The Swing   Author: Badriah Al-Bishr Mariam goes to Geneva searching for her husband who left her in Riyadh with two sons. Salwa follows her ex-husband after her family forced her to divorce him. Annab decides to live for herself in Geneva after being...

French prisoner Author's name: Jean Dost The French envoy, Pierre, is captured in Bayezid and imprisoned by order of its ruler, Mahmud Pasha. This happened during his journey from France to Iran to meet the Shah on an official mission entrusted to him by...

insomnia Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun A little sleep, please... a little of this sweet, pleasant absence... a walk among the stars in the absolute darkness. A screenwriter from Tangier suffers from debilitating insomnia. He discovers that killing someone allows him to sleep. His...

The white line of the night Author's name: Khaled Al-Nasrallah After a childhood spent turning the pages of his favorite books, and a youth spent working as a proofreader, he is pained when a book is banned and annoyed by having to reject some...