Dar Al Saqi Publishing House

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,...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Whispers of the Stars   Author: Naguib Mahfouz "When his daughter Umm Kulthum handed me a small box containing several papers belonging to Mahfouz, I felt a delight as if I were about to discover a pharaonic tomb... Among the papers was a complete...

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...

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...