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Bullying of intellectuals followed by the Great Culture Bazaar Author's name: Jamal Hussein Ali After author Jamal Hussein Ali described the problem of “hate” among intellectuals, and answered profound questions that many people have about the silent and blatant wars that rage among intellectuals…...

Articles on Metaphysics and Sufism Author's name: Immanuel Kant The texts that we are translating into Arabic in this book, for the first time in most of them, are found in contexts whose boundaries are barely discernible to the reader at first glance, nor...

Descartes' clocks Author's name: Nader Kazem To what extent does illness change us? In what sense is this sick, thin, pale, bedridden, speechless person unable even to move his lips to offer his relatives and friends a fleeting, even courteous, smile? In what sense...

Biographical notes Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges In his biography of his father, Borges says, “My father, Jorge Guillermo Borges, was a lawyer, an anarchist philosopher, and, at the same time, a psychology teacher at the Modern Languages ​​Teachers’ Institute, where he gave his...

Exercises in admiration Author's name: Emil Cioran I only met her twice, which is a small amount, but the extraordinary cannot be measured by the standards of time. What immediately drew me to her was her absent and bewildering countenance, her whispers—she didn't speak,...

tango Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges Borges retraces the path of tango, brought to Paris by upper-class Argentine families, and soon spreading across the Old Continent. It also reached London, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg. Borges asserts that tango filled the places it...

The event Author's name: Annie Ernaux Today I realize that I needed this ordeal and this sacrifice in order to generate within me the desire to have children, to accept the violence of this reproduction in my body, and to become, in turn, a...

Same Author's name: Agota Kristof Here you go, doctor. Yes, here. Yes, I'm on your phone. My husband had an accident. Yes, I think it was a serious accident. Very serious. We have to go upstairs. He's in our bedroom. This way. Excuse me,...

Mr. Gwen Author's name: Alessandro Baricco When a successful writer decides to rid himself of all the hypocrisy in the literary world, the list of things he doesn't have to do can be very long. Jasper Gwynne no longer wants to pretend, and to...

blue board Author's name: Gilbert Sinoué The setting of this novel is Spain, the time of its fall, the defeat of the Muslims, and their exodus from it. The novelist attempts, through reading the history of this period, to retrieve it with the sense...

Monastery Memorial Author's name: Jose Saramago The novel deconstructs history, calling for reinterpretation and rethinking of society, and supporting the reader's engagement in the search for another meaning of history, one less subject to elitist interpretations and more open to popular concepts. The novel...

Spirit of the Laws Author's name: Montesquieu No one studied law during the European Renaissance with such precision, clarity, boldness, and penetrating insight as Montesquieu. In his book, *The Spirit of the Laws*, he explained and criticized the known systems of government, distinguishing between...

Who killed Palomino Molero? Author's name: Mario Vargas Llosa A detective novel set in Latin America that investigates who killed Molero, a simple boy whose body was found horribly mutilated by a shepherd. What are the real reasons behind the murder of Molero, a...

Sofia or the beginning of all stories Author's name: Rafiq Shami One summer day in 2021, Salman Baldi decided to return to Damascus, forty years, two months, and seventeen days after he left Syria in 1970 with a forged passport. It took him another...

Falling in time Author's name: Emil Cioran The importance civilized man attaches to so-called backward peoples is what arouses most suspicion. Unable to bear himself any longer, he resorts to venting on those peoples the surplus of diseases that beset him, inviting them to...

The divine equation Author Name: Jose Z. dos Santos In the spring of 1951, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion visited Princeton University to meet with Albert Einstein. The purpose of the visit was to obtain a design for a nuclear weapon that would be...

Short Stories Part One Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges When one reaches a certain age, one can pretend to be many things, happiness not among them. - Others should be proud of the pages they have written; I am proud of those I have...

Sunset Island Author's name: Gilbert Sinoué "Sunset Island" is the first part of a trilogy of novels by author Gilbert Sinoué devoted to the history of Morocco before the French and Spanish occupation. It deals with the character of Sultan Ismail and the challenges...

My mother taught me Author's name: Dana bint Talib Al Hanzab It is an arrangement of the writer's chaotic memories with her mother. Sharing some of the situations and conversations that took place between them. As the author said, "You will find something of...

For the love of the Prophet Author's name: Muhammad Al-Qashmi This book is neither a narrative nor a teaching, but rather the pulse of a heart yearning for the Messenger of God. The whisper of a soul that longed, so it wrote.... And an...

While the world was asleep Author's name: Imad Munther Last night, a little before three o'clock... while the world was asleep, his soul was burning with evil, his eyes bloodshot, seething with rage... he set out on his way, eager to kill, with an...

Tomb of Empires Author's name: Rehan Khan The Emir of the Arabs, the "Leader" of the Spice Route from Aden to Gaza, is a brave and honest leader who is loved by everyone except his brothers who... They are jealous of him. His heart...

child sexual abuse Author's name: Dr. Heba Gamal Hariri The book Child Sexual Abuse, written by Dr. Heba Gamal Hariri, is a comprehensive guide that addresses the topic of child sexual abuse from various aspects, starting from prevention to recovery. The book is divided...

The dream I've been waiting for Author's name: Fatima Basma Amal I was too late, not because I wasn’t ready, but because the world was telling me to wait longer. I waited until my dream almost withered, until its name became a whisper in...

New morning After retirement the morning becomes yours Author's name: Saeed Qaraoush Al-Rumaithi A new morning. This book is not about retirement, but about what comes after it, about that moment when you close the office door and open a door to yourself, to...

The Four Fears That Keep Us From Living Author's name: Od Cimmeria I am afraid of being disappointed, of failing at something, of being judged by people. I am afraid of being abandoned, of being bothered by others, of expressing my opinion, of expressing...

Princesses are always right Author's name: Fabrice Midal In our turbulent world today, can ancient tales help us overcome what threatens our humanity? This is what the French philosopher Fabrice Midal answers in his wonderful book, Princesses Are Always Right, where he presents to...

The magic of gratitude Author's name: Dahi Ermani Gratitude is not just a hidden feeling that resides deep within the human soul, but rather it is a complete philosophy of life and a new way of looking at the world with an eye of...

The art of selfishness Author's Name: Anthony de Mello When was selfishness this beautiful? We hate selfish people. We see them in their isolation as pathetic, or perhaps harmful, refusing to please others. We celebrate those who sacrifice themselves for the happiness of the...

are you really alive Author's Name: Anthony de Mello There comes a moment in our lives when we honestly wonder if we are truly alive. Is what we feel really life, or are we repeating the days and passing them without living them? In...

Refine the spirits' guide to the land of joy Author's name: Imam Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, known as Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya numbers: Dr. Sultan bin Nasser Al Nasser

Simplified Islamic jurisprudence according to the four schools of thought Author's name: Naji bin Muhammad Shafiq Ajam A jurisprudential book that aims to explain Islamic jurisprudence in a simplified and easy-to-understand manner, presenting the four main schools of thought: Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali....

What about women? Author's name: Nour El Din Atar Al Halabi Indeed, the third millennium has entered, and many huge ambitions have been achieved, in many diverse fields, but the human condition in general and the condition of women in particular is proceeding in...

shame Author's name: Salman Rushdie In his brilliant third novel, first published in 1983, Salman Rushdie gives us a delightful and diverse blend of history, art, language, politics, and religion. Shame tells the story of a university professor's sudden fall from grace and the...

Confessions and Curses Author's name: Emil Cioran The best way to get rid of an enemy is to praise him everywhere. This will be transmitted to him, and he will lose the ability to offend you. In this way, you will have destroyed his...

The Red Garden Author's name: Mohamed Ait Hanna “When the child, whom we will here metaphorically name “M-A,” left school, as usual, he ran quickly home. Despite the pebble that had become lodged between his finger and the blue plastic slipper he was wearing,...

Permanent Revolution Author's name: Leon Trotsky Wherein lies Trotsky's greatness? To what extent are his ideas and struggle still relevant to our time? Trotsky's fundamental quality is that he is a "forward thinker," in the sense in which Greek myth says that "Prometheus" is...

A Girl's Diary Author's name: Annie Ernaux “The Diary of a Girl” was not only the text that remained missing from Annie Ernaux’s creative corpus for five decades, but it is also a text that is unique among all her works, and can be...

Three times at dawn Author's name: Alessandro Baricco These pages tell a true story, but it could never happen in reality. They tell of two people who meet three times, but each time is unique; it is the first and the last. They can...

livelihood Author's name: Cesare Pavese Nine days after completing his diary, "The Profession of Living," Cesare Pavese took his own life. He had taken an overdose of sleeping pills in a Turin hotel room shortly before. He had published his novel "The Moon and...

That other world Author's name: Azar Nafisi Although I know it will never end, I will not stop painting the second painting. My experiment has failed, and there is no better proof of this defeat, failure, or impotence than the paper on which I...

Orient Express Travel Diaries Author's Name: John Dos Passos The bow of the ship rocked as it hit a new, strong wave. A whirlwind hid the moon, and raindrops irritably sprinkled my head, then faded away, leaving behind wisps of moonlight drifting eastward where...

Aunt Julia and the screenwriter Author's name: Mario Vargas Llosa I continued to think about Pedro Camacho's life. What social milieu, what series of people, connections, problems, coincidences, and events resulted in that literary message (was it literary? If not, what was it?) that...

young man Author's name: Annie Ernaux In "The Young Man," Ernaux speaks in her own direct, frank, and non-fictional style about a love affair she had with a man about 30 years her junior. We read something similar in her novel "The Occupation," but...

Pantaleon and the Visitors Author: Mario Vargas Llosa After the Peruvian army received numerous complaints about soldiers assaulting peasant women and daughters in remote jungle areas, the military leadership found a solution: establishing a female visitors' service to provide entertainment for the soldiers. Newly...

Tigris ship Author: Thor Heyerdahl The Sumerians themselves say that their forefathers came by sea to the coastal city of Ur from the land of Dilmun after the Flood. Their written testimony seems, at first glance, to open the door to another mystery: Where...

Nine Essays on Dante Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges “Dante's Divine Comedy is not easy to read,” says Borges, “but with patience, it is very rewarding. First of all, there is a lot of suspense in it. It tells us about man's journey through...

Short Stories - Part Two Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges "My dear friend Paulino Keynes, who obtained for me the first volume of the Arabian Nights (London, 1840) in Lane's translation, and I discovered the manuscript which I am now going to translate into...

simple passion Author's name: Annie Ernaux Despite the "simplicity" of the writing, it actually succeeds in raising many of these existential questions that surround us. It knows how to raise the "philosophical" question about our relationship with others, with sex, and even with writing...

Tales from the Widows' Village Author's Name: James Canyon On November 15, 1992, guerrillas storm Mariquita, a remote Colombian mountain village, forcing its men to join their ranks. Anyone who resists or refuses is immediately killed. Only widows and spinsters remain, along with the...