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Shams, an elderly artist, lost his painting hand in the 2005 bombing that targeted the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, killing him. As a child, he lived in Cuba. As a teenager, he lived with his mother in her native Lebanon,...

The life of Shanuq, this strange, enigmatic man, unfolds before us through the women in his life. Through them, the novel explores key moments in Yemeni history, particularly those preceding unification. From the time of Saleh's alliance with the al-Baidh group in the north...

Here are women who wage passive battles for survival every day. They pay with their own flesh the price of a heavy legacy of pervasive social values, and they pay with their lives the bills entirely built on the premise that their existence is...

The Day I Learned to Live Laurent Gounelle Successful in your career. Stable in your life. You have a roof over your head, and some possessions... but you're not entirely satisfied. There's something missing, or perhaps too much. You're not alone in this state...

Small and their dreams are small. A bigger oar's appearance. Fathers, mothers, football polluters, Monica Bellucci fans, the poor who subsist on one meal a day, seekers of freedom or identity... it doesn't matter. The boat has room for everyone. And the boat promises...

When silence falls between us, his face seems to me like a word on the barrel of a cannon, and I always fear we might feel superior to him. One feels superior to someone who has had a bad day. Yes, offering condolences and...

That was my first love, a face I've never known. Her laughter guided me to unravel the details, and witnessing them led me to connect them. Sleeping beside her brought the tranquility of the night, and gazing at her face in the moments before...

Dying at the edge of memory—what happened there, on that land that was once home to them and later became a cause and a conflict? That land, before it became a cause and a conflict, was like everything else, embracing all backgrounds and religions....

"I didn't do anything else to offend the iron-clad man who's turned against his own people. He didn't go out to the demonstration, he wasn't the reason for the first bullets and tears being shed, and to be put in that way on the...

Love is a new life. What if, with every love, lovers lightened their names, titles, and pasts? Their sorrows and hungers? What if their stories began with the lightness of newly born beings, a new Adam and Eve, every day? Monsieur Dac and Madame...

Through the story of Grandmother Nadia Al-Faour, the narrative unfolds, specifically a narrative of Palestine. While the setting is geographically confined to Istanbul and Haifa, between Kadıköy and Wadi al-Nassas, it is a tale of Palestine under occupation, offering a concise and varied glimpse...

The obscure writer receives a call from an unknown number. A strange number appears on the screen. The handmade product... and then the labyrinth begins. The novel is divided into three parts, three voices, yet they all converge into a single book, from which...

Franz Goldstein is not just a publisher, and Edifice du Sable is not just a publishing house. Monsieur Goldstein dedicates his work and his life to this cause, his cause of bringing one of the novels to the Nile River in a simple literary...

Dawn broke over the ruins. After half an hour of silence and frost, a new convoy appeared. Hundreds of women with their children. Boys and girls. Dressed in black. Their mouths gagged. They walked like mobile prisons, concealing bodies, and bodies concealing souls, and...

No One Prayed Over Their Graves Khaled Khalifa A novel that delves into the narratives of the region, proposing a new and different narrative for the city of Aleppo in the 19th and mid-20th centuries, through intertwined stories of thwarted love, certain death through...

Gypsy Notebooks Khaled Khalifa At the threshold, I stand and observe the wall plastered with white lime. My grandmother rises from her sleep, enveloped in that awe I see in the eyes of others, so I approach her. Aisha protests and tries to pull...

The Guard of Deceit Khaled Khalifa   Alone, as I always am, I do not enter through closed doors. My departure exhausts me, and the moons on the brass-hued nights hang over the gates of Damascus. Damascus, the abyss of waiting and crystal walls…...

A Chance for One Last Love Hassan Daoud     In the first Arab novel about the Coronavirus pandemic, relationships begin and end just like the pandemic itself. From his Beirut balcony, Ezzat spots a single light on a single balcony in the building...

The Faculty of Education, 1968. The students of Lebanon had never known such a time before, yet they certainly felt it. There was ample opportunity for leisure, for forming relationships with girls, and for discussing politics and expressing opinions freely. Everyone played, even in...

Oh, Reza, the most beautiful thing about writing is that you can't interrupt me. I admit that you might turn away from me if I speak to you, or silence me, or throw away our old gifts and letters and then lie about not...

Don't you dream of having a spacious house, marrying a beautiful woman, and escaping life on the streets? If my house were as big as this special gift we have, its windows wouldn't have a single curtain. I like to see my surroundings all...

The Internment Sameera Ahmed A novel set in a fictional version of the United States, unfolding at a thrilling, breathtaking pace, it is a call for hope and resilience, and a silent plea to move towards better societies today. Following the American President's declaration...

Wadjda Haifaa Al Mansour "Beneath her traditional abaya, Wadjda wears jeans and Converse sneakers. In her room, she secretly listens to Western rock and pop songs. In her dreams, she imagines herself racing against the wind on a bicycle, just like her friend Abdullah....

The Phoenix Mansour Eid   French journalist Bernard de Lo arrived in Lebanon to cover the events of the civil war, or perhaps it was pure chance that led him to that village, on that particular day. Damour, like other Lebanese villages, had been...

Yours is the Yearning   The writer who started her life with poetry and built her glory as a novelist returns to poetry once again. In this collection, Ahlam Mosteghanemi gathers some of her many poems and shares them with her readers in writing...

Forgetting Ahlam Mosteghanemi This book, which sold over 50,000 copies, contains the subsequent stress and guidance offered by the author. It is a humorous and entertaining branch for women distressed by love. She presents her definition of desired masculinity and hoped-for femininity, narrates stories...

For decades, Salam al-Rassi, the "Sheikh of Folk Literature," collected the gems of Lebanese folk heritage, including proverbs and wisdom, documenting the Lebanese folk experience, particularly that of the southern countryside. His remarkable talent was characterized by its fluency and masterful blending of the...

Karam on the Path Mikhail Naimy   A collection of sayings and proverbs that shine, framed by pure wisdom and keen insight. You read them again and again, and each time you rediscover their profound meanings and greatness, which makes you more attached to...

In the Wind Mikhail Naimy     A collection of engaging articles and amusing stories that Mikhail Naimy accustomed us to presenting from time to time to his readership and admirers of his literature in all Arab countries. In it, he addresses, in his...

In The New Sieve Mikhail Naimy   A book brimming with the opinions of the great writer Mikhail Naimy on masterpieces of world literature and the works of many of our contemporary writers and thinkers. Just as "The Sieve" played an active role in...

Job Mikhail Naimy     "Naimy uses the story of Job in the Torah as a means to dramatize his intellectual convictions on the subject of suffering. He once said in one of his collections of proverbs, "Your enemy is a friend disguised as...

Idols Mikhail Naimy   “Every era has its idols. Some are ancient, inherited by successive generations. Others are new, created by new circumstances. Some are worshipped by all people, while others are worshipped only by a specific class within the human community. Whoever thought...

The Last Day Mikhail Naimy   "In this novel, Mikhail Naimy depicts the experience of a man who, at midnight, learns that the next twenty-four hours are all that remain of his life. Thus, Musa al-Askari, in these few hours, must confront his entire...

Footnotes Mikhail Naimy   "Footnotes" is a collection of stories and essays in which the hermit of "Al-Shakhroub" takes his usual journeys into the horizons of life, delving into its depths and unveiling its secrets with his wonderful and unique style. In it, he...

Sunset Whispers Mikhail Naimy   "Mikhail Naimy was eighty-four years old when "Sunset Whispers" was published, and he believed it would be his last work before his departure. Thus, this book came in a strange form; it was neither prose, as we are accustomed...

A Rendezvous Mikhail Naimy   A tale of two beautiful souls, each searching for the other since eternity, who then meet. Penned by a sensitive, tasteful, and thoughtful writer, its atmosphere connects earth to sky, filled with mysteries and lights. It captivates the reader...

Once Upon a Time Mikhail Naimy These stories, from "The Barren" to "Her New Year" and "Sa'adat al-Beik" and others, all take place either in the homeland or in emigration. They revolve around the scourges, problems, and issues that emerge from life, which are...

The Sieve Mikhail Naimy     "The Sieve," in its current edition, is ninety years old. However, unlike what years usually do, these years have only made it younger. Since its first publication in 1923, it remains to this day one of the most...

The Threshing Floors Mikhail Naimy   This book is a collection of radio broadcasts written during World War II, most of which revolve around the phenomenon of war. The war that Naimy evokes here is not only the one that flares up between armies,...

Abu Batta Mikhail Naimy   "I entered the shop, and at the back, I saw a middle-aged man sitting at a small table. In one hand, he held a pair of scissors, and in the other, a piece of fabric. In front of him...

Fathers and Sons Mikhail Naimy   Mikhail Naimy is a unique humanitarian school and a luminous doctrine among the noblest doctrines of Arab and global human thought. This dramatic novel is Mikhail Naimy's first theatrical work, and he extracted it from the core of...

Kahlil Gibran Mikhail Naimy   Nothing is more beloved to the hearts of readers in general than the biographies of writers and great figures. And nothing is more beloved to the heart of the Arab reader in particular than the biographies of their famous...

Kahlil Gibran Complete Arabic Works The Lebanese writer, philosopher, poet, and painter (1883-1931) who paved the way from the remote town of Bsharri to global renown. With his prolific output, he enriched not just Arabic literature but global literature as well, through books that...

Gibran Khalil Gibran The Complete Translated English Works Nawfal does not overlook the wealth encompassed by Gibran Khalil Gibran's Arabic works. Gibran Khalil Gibran, the poet, writer, painter, and philosopher, is too famous to be introduced and too profound for his works to be...

In each story of this collection, the woman appears like a phantom from a land of wonder and strangeness. As you try to discern her features, you attempt to draw closer, seeking deeper understanding, only to find her slipping through your fingers, leaving behind...

The Spring... This is a new addition that Emily Nasrallah introduces to readers of Arabic fiction, regardless of their homelands or orientations. As she continues her upward trajectory in storytelling, she reaffirms the essential features of her luminous humanism and distinctive artistic and aesthetic...

As I approached to greet her, the woman extended both her hands. "This is Beirut," she said... a woman as majestic as a legend, strong, beautiful, and enigmatic. I saw her brocade shawl cascading from her broad shoulders, down to the slender waist and...

The lady raised her hands and gestured for us all to ascend the steps separating us. We all gathered around her. Her hair remained in gray strands, swirling around her face, almost concealing its features, except for her eyes, which were slender and piercing...

Birds of September Emily Nasrallah   Similarly, the writer tries, through our continued success, as the door remains open to endings, as if to say: do not put a period at the end of September. "Birds of September" is an art exhibition that portrays...

This is what Emily Nasrallah tries to emphasize in this new collection of stories. It doesn't rely on events, but rather on the style that succeeded in "The House of Frankness and Allusion," the style of debate and absurdity, just as life itself does...