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Houseboat over the river
A girl with long black hair, slipping into the river water, haunts Laila's dreams, just as her husband, Benjamin, has left their marital home in Tehran. Laila had fled Beirut in search of love and happiness, far from a curse that had haunted the...- Dhs. 50.00
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Test Blood
In war, days become the same. Your existence becomes a coincidence missed by a bullet. Every day becomes an extra day spent on borrowed time. You forget to look in the mirror. You search for your face in the faces of others. You bury...- Dhs. 50.00
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The kingdom of slave girls
In the late fifth century AH, amidst the sectarian conflicts raging among the emirates of southern Arabia, and in a harsh, patriarchal environment, the Jableh region was ruled by a woman whose reign extended for more than 50 years. Her power extended without an...- Dhs. 50.00
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Panda
Fifteen years ago, his father died. He killed himself with a bullet from a pistol he had once bought for self-defense, not to kill himself. The bullet pierced his temple, and he departed a life that had astonished him in all its astonishment. He...- Dhs. 41.00
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Nazir
The pitiful are those who relentlessly chase illusions, often losing their way in the fervent pursuit. This happens because the glimmer they see at the tunnel's end is not a beacon of hope, as they believe, but rather the deceptive mirage of delusion. Nazeer,...- Dhs. 50.00
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Salem Street
Salem Street is a homeland. Stolen and then reclaimed, stolen from those who fought for it. In truth, it is not yet a homeland. It is a dream like all our homelands. It has forgotten heroes and unknown soldiers. It has troublemakers and challengers...- Dhs. 60.00
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The veiled one
I wait. My life is perfectly arranged, like a house where no one lives. I wait for night to sleep and morning to go to detention. I wait for five o'clock to get up from my desk, then return and wait for night, then...- Dhs. 50.00
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Phonograph
Writing is a constant search for answers. A bouquet of questions fragrant with beautiful ambiguities, those that add depth to every surface. Writing is an act of purification, or an act of revenge for memory. Whatever it is, it is a cry. The hero...- Dhs. 50.00
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Loss
He began to reflect on his days, which were consecutive, empty, repetitive, and boring. He read, listened to music, watched TV, but none of these things replaced a living human being. A human being to talk to, to agree with or disagree with, a...- Dhs. 47.00
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Two Women
Veronica: Born 1546, Venice. A courtesan and courtesan of royalty at the Italian court in the 16th century. Kara: Born in 1980, Beirut. A conservative university professor specializing in religious studies, she is obsessed with holiness and has a particular fascination with metaphysics. We...- Dhs. 58.00
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The Screen Thief
Thaer takes advantage of the demonstrators' preoccupation with their mass gathering and sneaks into one of the shops. He finds nothing there to steal, except an old TV. But that wasn't the worst of it, for the security men arrest him, even though they...- Dhs. 37.00
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People's Shadows
I am faceless, afraid to smile. This place fails to grasp my essence, and the walls around me hold no significance other than the limits of my movement. I spin around, dive deep within, summon my deepest memories, and search far away for the...- Dhs. 47.00
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Havana has no God to protect it
The Castro regime is in decline, and Don Fuego still sings in Havana's cabarets. His golden voice has always enthralled the masses and fueled the flame of hope in hearts. But everything around him has changed. It is time for the rumba master to...- Dhs. 63.00
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Khalil
To be a suicide bomber for a moment. To put yourself in his shoes and time. To dare to formulate words from the heart of his thoughts and feelings. To not do him justice, to make excuses for him, or to sympathize with him....- Dhs. 74.00
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Death has colored eyes
September is returning, and you're not here to welcome it. Longing, Susan... I didn't know longing was a deadly disease. All the wounds within me can be mended with the stitches of forgetfulness, except for losing you. This wound won't stop widening whenever I...- Dhs. 60.00
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Flowers of Ruin
I sat on the terrace of a café opposite the Charlety Amphitheatre, mulling over a number of hypotheses about Philippe de Pacheco, whose face I had never even seen. I jotted down some notes, and without fully realizing what I was doing, I began...- Dhs. 47.00
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Festival Hotel
Once upon a time, not long ago, there was a peaceful city slumbering on a beach, accommodating the dreams of its inhabitants. In cosmopolitan Nari, Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived in peace, drinking from the same spring and contemplating the same sunset. As a...- Dhs. 74.00
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Sultana Cairo
A child with emerald eyes, kidnapped from the Caucasian steppes, sold into slavery to live as a concubine in the harem of the Emir of Baghdad. A seductress radiating passion and seduction. A woman who led the Egyptian army and, with her boldness and...- Dhs. 68.00
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Lost Battles
Losing Battles - Fathers have one color, and sons have many. Fathers have their motorcycles and slow days, and sons have the rest of the colors and the future that races before them. From the family walls to the city walls, from the small...- Dhs. 47.00
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Winter Holidays
There is one positive side to departure. Shedding oneself can be rewarding, despite the scars ingrained in the soul. In departure, we become others. We wear the skin of who we dreamed of being, or someone who spares us the painful questions about who...- Dhs. 41.00
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Land of Happy Intrigues
Is it right to categorize people as purely good and purely evil? Is good an absolute value? And is evil a flaw that begins with an irreversible misstep? Do we sympathize with someone who is drowning, feel their deep desire to escape this trap,...- Dhs. 50.00
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Sequins - The Sequin Embroidery
In October 1898, German Emperor Wilhelm II made a trip to the East. In Istanbul, he met Sultan Abdul Hamid II and planned to build the Berlin-Baghdad railway in an effort to rival England's trade and cut off the overland route to India. To...- Dhs. 50.00
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Turonian
How does a lover escape from love, and a warrior from war? He has grown accustomed to living without love, but without enemies, neither war would be his destiny nor love would have wronged him. As for her, the enchantress who carries her weapon...- Dhs. 50.00
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Women's Villa
Iskandar Hayek lives a happy, comfortable life. He is a textile merchant who has absolute control over his factory, his lands, and his family, despite the clouds gathering in the Lebanese sky during the mid-1960s, and despite the constant quarrels between his sister Mado...- Dhs. 60.00
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Ouch! - Ambiguous Memoirs
Having grown up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Shaker Khazaal had one mission in mind: to escape the prison of displacement and take his rightful place in the world. With this detailed biography, you will embark on an exciting adventure, from the...- Dhs. 74.00
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Tale of Tala
Life and death. Victory and defeat. Hope and despair. In "Tala's Story," Henry, a renowned New York writer, tries to cope with the sudden death of his mother and the failure of his latest novel. His life, once crowned with success, suddenly collapses. He...- Dhs. 74.00
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Superfluous woman
Not much happens in Rabee Alamin's new novel. There is no labored plot, no whirlpools in which the characters get lost, no events that captivate the reader. Literature is what happens in this novel. Literature kneaded with a whole life, a ghost that inhabits...- Dhs. 78.00
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Brats of Hierapolis
I know, Maria, that there is a child inside you, and that children fear bullets and love their mothers’ breasts, but I have nothing for you but two arms, defenseless in the face of all this sorrow. I also know that you love roses,...- Dhs. 50.00
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The shadows of the family
What does it mean to live in Jerusalem today, carrying the legacy of an ancient tribe that left the wilderness in two previous parts of Mahmoud Shukair's trilogy: "The Family Horse" and "In Praise of the Women of the Family"? Grandchildren and great-grandchildren don't...- Dhs. 50.00
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Attila is the last of the lovers
While this recurring saying, “No one knows in what land they will die,” haunts me, I get lost in the mystery of the plot of land where Abu Saad could be buried. Where is it located? Does it bear a lofty headstone, as everyone...- Dhs. 74.00
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