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Loss Album
Loss Album Author's name: Abbas Baydoun The years jostle in his mind... He is the narrator who races against time, thinking he is deceiving time, even though his negligence has contributed to it passing faster. Through his daily narration with "Nino," his daughter's cat,...- Dhs. 45.00
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Card for two people
Card for two people Author's name: Abbas Baydoun Trains aren't scary, but we keep thinking they have a history with predatory animals and the slave trade. That they only achieved this control through oppression. That they still drag along their painful length in search...- Dhs. 32.00
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Hour of abandonment
Hour of abandonment Author's name: Abbas Baydoun In the Lebanese town adjacent to the border strip, Salah, Nadim, Fawaz, and the rest of the leftist comrades feel defeated and helpless. The Israeli army is preparing to invade, and the Palestinian organizations have withdrawn towards...- Dhs. 45.00
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B B B
B B B Author's name: Abbas Baydoun Leave without cards, you won't need all this blood. Blow on the glass and you will find your faces. This straw that you fought over will be washed again, not only of blood but also of meanings.- Dhs. 32.00
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Death takes our measurements
Death takes our measurements Author's name: Abbas Baydoun That heaviness we feel in the upper arm might be the lingering effect of a fear that has paralyzed the imagination, or burned it out like a current in a factory. When farewell becomes life's only...- Dhs. 32.00
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The Complete Poetic Works: Part One (1950-1961)
Complete Poetic Works, Part One (1950-1961) Author's name: Adonis For the first time, the complete poetic works of the poet Adonis are being published by Dar Al Saqi, with the aim of facilitating access to his abundant poetic output to the reader, shedding light...- Dhs. 68.00
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Complete Poetic Works, Part Two (1965-1970)
Complete Poetic Works, Part Two (1965-1970) Author's name: Adonis They came out of the ancient books where the originals are worn out, and came as the chapters come The ashes embraced their opposite The fields walked to the fields, no, I am not from...- Dhs. 68.00
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Complete Poetic Works, Part Three (1975-1980)
Complete Poetic Works, Part Three (1975-1980) Author's name: Adonis Say time drifts in a fog that dangles and clears, not of steam or dust, but of human breath. Say history is sores and ruins, and the present has the flavor of straw. Say the...- Dhs. 68.00
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Complete Poetic Works, Part Four (1982-1994)
Complete Poetic Works, Part Four (1982-1994) Author's name: Adonis You are not this city or that, you are not residence and memories / Far reaches are your bet - but your steps are terrified and the histories of that space that you were are...- Dhs. 68.00
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Complete Poetic Works, Part Seven, 2008
Complete Poetic Works, Part Seven, 2008 Author's name: Adonis Tonight, the moon lights its candles among the graves of children, while a mysterious wind stretches on my shoulder a rose that is about to wither.- Dhs. 68.00
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Complete Poetic Works, Part Five, 1998
Complete Poetic Works, Part Five, 1998 Author's name: Adonis Do not be afraid to touch the clouds and say, “Be reassured,” O my steps in the courtyard of lions, in the courtyard of basil. The moon descends the ladder of water to meet in...- Dhs. 68.00
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Complete Poetic Works, Part Six (2003-2007)
Complete Poetic Works, Part Six (2003-2007) Author's name: Adonis Behind the loom that weaves history is a hidden force that sometimes camouflages, sometimes neglects, and sometimes forgets—according to the situation, the condition, and the goal. History, in general, is like a swimmer facing the...- Dhs. 68.00
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Complete Poetic Works, Part Eight, 2010
Complete Poetic Works, Part Eight, 2010 Author's name: Adonis There is a legend repeated by some villagers, which says that in the summer night turns into a magician who appears in the villages bareheaded, and spends all his time counting the stars and collecting...- Dhs. 68.00
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Witches' Resort
Witches' Resort Author's name: Amir Taj Al-Sir She got off a bus coming from the Eritrean border, fleeing the fires of war in her country. A captivating beauty landed in the wrong place, without support, money, or shelter. Her name is Abeba Tesfaye, a...- Dhs. 36.00
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Hamida said Hijazi legends
Hamida said Hijazi legends Author: Abdo Khal "The tradition of storytelling in the Hejaz is very intimate, as the story is private to the children and not general. The narrator is a mother or grandmother who tells it to her children or grandchildren. The...- Dhs. 80.00
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grub hunter
grub hunter Author's name: Amir Taj Al-Sir After his retirement, Abdullah Harfesh, a security officer, decides to write a novel. He joins literary circles and frequents the circle surrounding the famous novelist (A.T.). He learns the basics of novel writing and begins selecting his...- Dhs. 45.00
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Night shell
Night shell Author's name: Abdo Khal During stillness, a moving act occurs, there is no such thing as coincidence. Coincidence is the moment of pause from which the equation of existence is generated... movement... life... dreams... Every movement directs us towards annihilation or life....- Dhs. 55.00
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Autumn of Innocence
Autumn of Innocence Author's name: Abbas Baydoun Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2017 Masoud kills his wife and flees to Syria, where he joins an Islamist group. His son, Ghassan, grows up orphaned and raised by his uncle Jawad, bearing the burden of his father's...- Dhs. 45.00
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Two months for me
Two months for me Author's name: Abbas Baydoun “At seven, I longed for love and read passionately about people who began to love at seven; I belonged to those boys whose only talent was not love, for they were also poets or musicians. I...- Dhs. 45.00
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First body, last sea
First body, last sea Author's name: Adonis My time is dust, and my love is now its rock. I don’t know: Was it carved from our yesterday, or was it carved from my lust? And tomorrow, will you see me as a wound carried...- Dhs. 32.00
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Metaphysics of the Fox
Metaphysics of the Fox Author's name: Abbas Baydoun My mother and I rarely spoke together. I don't even remember us exchanging a single sentence. What does one have to say to their parents? That was said a long time ago, and it was confirmed...- Dhs. 28.00
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Prayer for the beginning of frost
Prayer for the beginning of frost Author's name: Abbas Baydoun A stone sinks into memory, a face emerges from under the water, barely featuring. The years have cooled its features, a thick oblivion gathers on them. I did not recognize it. The stone has...- Dhs. 28.00
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Mourning does not wear a crown
Mourning does not wear a crown Author's name: Abbas Baydoun It is not true that laughter heals and that guffaws continue to echo in the mountain after the lie ends and the place falls silent. A stray soul divulges secrets and a single advantage...- Dhs. 32.00
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Black Ocean
Black Ocean Author's name: Adonis I woke up yesterday, disturbed: I was dreaming, passing in the dream: many cities, and no house. Many houses, and no room. Many rooms, and no bed. Many beds, and no sleep.- Dhs. 80.00
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Poetry time
Poetry time Author's name: Adonis Rejection, in itself, is a destructive element. But no radical revolution or civilization comes without rejection preceding and paving the way for it, like thunder before rain. Rejection, alone, allows us, in the civilizational impasse we are experiencing, to...- Dhs. 63.00
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A book seller who sells books on stars
A book seller who sells books on stars Author's name: Adonis Thus, we must practice writing as a "criminal" act: a critique and a demolition. Writing that shakes the foundations of tyranny in its various forms and manifestations, whether in values, traditions, norms, customs,...- Dhs. 45.00
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Calm down Hamlet, breathe in Ophelia's madness
Hamlet gives Ophelia a breath of fresh air Author's name: Adonis Ink bells ring in the desert of paper - are they signs of meaning? A time - in which the sun itself is almost a veil.- Dhs. 32.00
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History is torn apart in a woman's body
History is torn apart in a woman's body Author's name: Adonis They claimed that I was created to be nothing but a vessel to hold semen, as if I were nothing but a field and a plow: My body is made of scum and...- Dhs. 28.00
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The head of the language is the body of the desert
The head of the language is the body of the desert Author's name: Adonis A cloud strokes the face of a half-asleep cloud. A cloud extends its hand to the face of the sun. A cloud extends its hand as if begging from space.- Dhs. 63.00
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Coffee women
Coffee women Author's name: George Amadou Their obsession is women and love in a country where men fight and quarrel, but which opens the doors of ambition and dreams to all of them. Jamil Bishara, the dreamer of wealth and love; Radwan Murad, the...- Dhs. 32.00
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The torrent has finally reached the age of Wednesday
The torrent has finally reached the age of Wednesday Author's name: Salim Barakat Poetry always flows there: in what it does with language, and in language, in the intercourse between the sensual and the mental, and in the escape of his wild imagination from...- Dhs. 28.00
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Cities eating grass
Cities eating grass Author's name: Abdo Khal The caravan didn't take little Yahya to where he was supposed to go. Places in his life are scattered, moving away from one another, just as supposed families are scattered. But a thread ties the scattered parts...- Dhs. 63.00
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immorality
immorality Author's name: Abdo Khal They said she escaped from her grave! ... Ever since she was little, she used to harass men, and her features would glow with worldly happiness whenever a man held her in his arms. Dozens of young men proposed...- Dhs. 45.00
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There is nothing to cheer about
There is nothing to cheer about Author's name: Abdo Khal Rashid's absence has become a preoccupation for the neighborhood residents, after an elderly woman who can never miss a dream recounted seeing him wearing a green robe, singing in a feminine voice. Suddenly, he...- Dhs. 55.00
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Introduction to Arabic Poetry
Introduction to Arabic Poetry Author's name: Adonis Dar Al Saqi is reissuing this literary study, which calls for a reconsideration of the Arabic poetic heritage, not to rupture with it, but to affirm that poetry is changing in form, concept, and vision. Thus, poetry...- Dhs. 28.00
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return
return Author's name: Alberto Manguel In Rome, Nestor Fabrice receives an invitation that disrupts his quiet life as a street vendor. He sets off for Buenos Aires for a brief visit to the lands of his boyhood. Upon arrival, he embarks on the perilous...- Dhs. 32.00
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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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With Borges
With Borges Author: Alberto Manguel In Buenos Aires, 1964, a blind writer approaches a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asks if he would be interested in a part-time job as a reader aloud. The writer is Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's most sensitive...- Dhs. 32.00
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A lover of details
A lover of details Author's name: Alberto Manguel Anatole Vasanbian lived in Poitiers, France, during the interwar period, working in a public bathhouse. He possessed an amazing talent for capturing detail: he would describe the hands handling soap, peer into the bathers' skin colors,...- Dhs. 28.00
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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