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Mind wanderings
Mind wanderings Author's name: Rafael Gaillard The stereotype of the mad, unconventional creative person has been entrenched throughout the ages. Is madness the origin of art and creativity? Or is it an obstacle to its manifestation? Is there a scientific basis for the deeply...- Dhs. 68.00
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Departure theories and factors affecting it
Departure theories and factors affecting it Author's name: Muhammad Hassan Alwan There are more than two hundred million migrants in the world today. If they were to gather in one independent country, it would be the fifth most populous. Adding those who are temporarily...- Dhs. 68.00
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Marry a Saudi woman
Marry a Saudi woman Author's name: Badriya Al-Bishr From a law prohibiting women from driving to what people do when they stop at a red light, there's a host of important social topics, sometimes with a political undertone, that the author addresses in simple,...- Dhs. 55.00
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Islam as we explain it to our children
Islam as we explain it to our children Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun Narrating the story of a man destined to be a prophet, and the story of a religion and civilization that have made many contributions to humanity, Tahar Ben Jelloun speaks about...- Dhs. 45.00
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Racism as I explain it to my daughter
Racism as I explain it to my daughter Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun Children are curious. They ask a lot of questions, expecting precise and convincing answers. Their questions cannot be dealt with equivocally. This book was born when ten-year-old Miriam asked her father,...- Dhs. 45.00
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imaginary life
imaginary life Author's name: Alberto Manguel Like a river overflowing with words, Manguel flows as soon as his interlocutor touches on the subject of reading. In this book, Manguel talks about his childhood, his intellectual formation, his work as a reader at the age...- Dhs. 55.00
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Reading memory
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...- Dhs. 45.00
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Reading diary
Reading diary Author's name: Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel, reading Goethe's *Eclectic Affinities* while traveling in Calgary, was struck by how much the novel reflected the social chaos of the world in which he lived. A passage in the novel could suddenly illuminate a daily...- Dhs. 55.00
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Sofia
Sofia Author's name: Muhammad Hassan Alwan Moataz is a young man in his thirties who doesn't attract attention or raise questions. He suffers from a deep condition inside him, he doesn't know what it is: a defect in the optic nerve, a rebellious memory...- Dhs. 32.00
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swing
The swing Author's name: Badriya Al-Bishr Maryam heads to Geneva in search of her husband, who left her in Riyadh with her two children. Salwa follows her ex-husband after her family forced her to divorce him. Anab decides to live her life in Geneva...- Dhs. 36.00
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 Author's name: Ray Bradbury Pulitzer Prize 2007 Guy Montag is a firefighter. His job is to burn banned books, which the rulers consider the source of all evil and tragedy. Yet Montag is miserable. Influenced by his neighbor Clarisse, he begins stealing...- Dhs. 55.00
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French prisoner
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...- Dhs. 72.00
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insomnia
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...- Dhs. 55.00
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white line of night
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...- Dhs. 59.00
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They are waiting for dawn
They are waiting for dawn Author's name: Jean Dost Seventy-nine days have passed since the trench warfare that the state started against the party, and the party started against itself! Only a madman would choose the battlefield to write his novel: “Salma’s Madman.” Between...- Dhs. 72.00
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Honey and bitterness
Honey and bitterness Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun Tangier, early 21st century. She was among his victims. He is a pervert who lures teenage girls by tempting them to publish their poems in his newspaper. She is a sixteen-year-old teenager. Samia did not confide...- Dhs. 63.00
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cocoa
cocoa Author's name: Jorge Amado After his father's death, Sergipano is forced to leave his land and become a laborer on a cocoa plantation. There, he is surprised by the slavery to which the plantation workers are subjected. Sergipano finds a respite when Maria,...- Dhs. 40.00
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The Translator's Lover
The Translator's Lover Author's name: Jean Dost Seven days and nights were spent by the translator's lover, delving into his ancient memories in search of the beginning of his journey to the "Land of the Crosses." A dream project that his father never fulfilled,...- Dhs. 45.00
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News from foreign countries
News from foreign countries Author's name: Alberto Manguel "McKitterick Prize" 1992 A journey into darkness, but also a love story, with a sensitivity that explores the known, the unknown, and the unknowable between man and woman, between father and daughter. The novel tells the...- Dhs. 59.00
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Three steps to the gallows
Three steps to the gallows Author's name: Jean Dost Sheikh Saeed was forced to lead the Kurdish revolution against Turkey before the conditions and preparations were ripe, and it ended with the fading of the Kurdish dream of independence. He was the leader, but...- Dhs. 55.00
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Terrorism as we explain it to our children
Terrorism as we explain it to our children Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun They blow themselves up and those around them in the name of religion. They resort to violence and murder to find meaning in their lives and their deaths. Who are these...- Dhs. 36.00
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Broken eyes
Broken eyes Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun At the foot of the mountain lies a hidden treasure, and she alone holds the secret key, even if she doesn't know its true nature. She knows who killed her little brother, but she no longer seeks...- Dhs. 59.00
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Whisper of the Stars
Whisper of the Stars Author's name: Naguib Mahfouz "When his daughter, Umm Kulthum, gave me a small box containing several papers belonging to Mahfouz, I felt a pleasure as if I were about to discover a pharaonic tomb. Among the papers was a complete...- Dhs. 25.00
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Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees Author's name: Alberto Manguel Robert Louis Stevenson enjoys life on the colorful island of Samoa until everything is turned upside down by rape, murder, and the appearance of his doppelganger, Mr. Baker. In this playful celebration of Stevenson's life...- Dhs. 32.00
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The art of reading
The art of reading Author's name: Alberto Manguel Thirty-nine meditations on the joy of reading, through which Alberto Manguel takes us on an extraordinary literary journey, enriched by narratives from Homer and Dante, and themes ranging from Pinocchio to Alice, from Borges to Che...- Dhs. 68.00
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Curiosity
Curiosity Author's name: Alberto Manguel Curiosity has been, and continues to be, the catalyst that drives our knowledge and the temptation that leads us into dangerous and forbidden waters. Questions arise in diverse guises and in diverse contexts: Why does evil exist? What is...- Dhs. 68.00
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Library at night
Library at night Author's name: Alberto Manguel "The Library at Night" is the captivating story of the vital role the library has played in our civilization. In his international bestseller, *A History of Reading*, inspired by the process of creating a library in his...- Dhs. 55.00
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A man came and went
A man came and went Author's name: Ghazi Al-Gosaibi You packed your bags and gave me the azure sea, you waved to me and I waved to you... and when I came back... I drowned in a sea of blood- Dhs. 28.00
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Ten nights and a narration
Ten nights and a narration Author's name: Tahar Ben Jelloun Tales by the French writer Charles Perrault, drawn from the myths and legends of ancestors, are narrated by Tahar Ben Jelloun in the manner of Scheherazade in "One Thousand and One Nights." These tales...- Dhs. 55.00
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The bells of Rome
The bells of Rome Author's name: Jean Dost A lover leaves Antioch for Rome to learn languages and the basics of translation. There, he falls in love with a Christian girl, marries her, converts to Islam, and becomes a wine merchant. Now an elderly...- Dhs. 45.00
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