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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Death passes by here
Death passes by here Author's name: Abdo Khal Death doesn't just pass through the village of "Al-Sawdaa"; it resides there, never leaving. And death in Al-Sawdaa is called "Al-Sawadi"; the master of the terrifying castle from which whoever enters it leaves only to the...- 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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Dowry of shouting
Dowry of shouting Author's name: Amir Taj Al-Sir In the "Korak" council, Adam Nazar declares his desire, shouting, "I want to be a sheikh father." His memory still echoes the cries of his father, the drummer, who wanted to perform the Hajj pilgrimage; a...- Dhs. 68.00
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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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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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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 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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