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Tree of Misery Author's name: Taha Hussein It's as if misery is a tree with roots deep in our souls, feeding on our days, absorbing our vitality and hopes, then bearing fruits of thistles and thorns that we reluctantly eat, for there is no...

Wednesday's Hadith Author's name: Taha Hussein Taha Hussein wrote these chapters as if he were speaking to his listeners during one of his radio interviews. They came out as intended, so you can read them as if he were sitting next to you, recounting...

Quarrel and criticism Author's name: Taha Hussein A true intellectual always feels a sense of responsibility towards his nation and its issues. He works to present its problems, highlight their dangers, and then propose the necessary solutions to eliminate them. This is what the...

Hafez and Shawqi Author's name: Taha Hussein The twentieth century heralded the beginning of a major literary renaissance, one of the most prominent manifestations of which was poetry. Two Egyptian poets took the lead in this renaissance: Ahmed Shawqi, the prince of poetry and...

Paradise of Thorns Author's name: Taha Hussein In this book, Taha Hussein seeks to revive an ancient literary art form called epigram (Greek for inscription). He believes this literary genre is more suited to our fast-paced, hectic modern lives, with their myriad responsibilities that...

Tradition and renewal Author's name: Taha Hussein With parrots who "imitate and copy, believing themselves to be innovators and innovators," this is the fate the dean of Arabic literature did not wish for young Arab intellectuals, whom the vocabulary of contemporary civilization placed in...

Commemorating Abu al-Ala Author's name: Taha Hussein Taha Hussein established a distinctive critical school based on objectivity as a style and the scientific method as a method and tool. He believed that any critical reading of texts requires the critic to familiarize himself with...

In between Author's name: Taha Hussein In this book, the dean of Arabic literature presents a collection of collected articles, whose topics range from literary criticism and a review of the Egyptian cultural climate to an examination of his country's social and political problems,...

colors Author's name: Taha Hussein The great writer Taha Hussein was driven by a strong desire for knowledge from his childhood until the last days of his life. He would spend long hours every day listening to his assistants or colleagues reading to him...

In pre-Islamic literature Author's name: Taha Hussein There is no doubt that this book sparked such controversy that it became one of the most famous books of the twentieth century. In it, the author argued that "pre-Islamic poetry" was illegitimate and that it was...

writer Author's name: Taha Hussein These are two complementary memoirs: an autobiography of the author, and a biography of the writer himself. At the same time, it is an artistic novel based on imagination, allusion, suspense, digression, and a focus on rhetoric and eloquence....

Hadiths Author's name: Taha Hussein Sometimes writers get bored talking about history, criticism, literature and related issues. They long for the reader to know them as friends, not as writers, so they can engage in simple conversations that touch the heart, free of argument...

Messages on motherhood, femininity and life Author's name: Tasneem Rajih In the hustle and bustle of contemporary material life, the general neglect of people to work for what they were created for, and the erosion of authentic innate values from the souls, replaced by...

You are here Author Name: David Nicholas In middle age, when everything seems settled, Michael and Melanie meet—two strangers, weary of life, walking a mountain pass in northern England, not in search of adventure, but to escape the silence that fills the interior. Michael,...

I see you, I hear you, I understand you Author Name: Caroline Fleck Through a combination of psychological research and real-life stories, this book takes you on a journey to learn a simple yet surprisingly powerful skill: to make those around you feel understood,...

Why did I betray you? Author's name: Tamer Hassanein Betrayal is the most devastating thing to any relationship, leaving an unhealed wound in the heart of the one who has experienced it. We live in a time where betrayal has become as easy as...

Here you are Author's name: Ihab Al-Qawasmeh The author talks about the name of the book “Here You Are”, which he chose carefully so that the reader feels that the book is his. That is, when you hold the book, you will feel that...

Emotional fitness Author's Name: Emily Anhalt The quality of your life is not measured by the absence of pain, but by your ability to face it without extinguishing the flame of life within you. In a world that equates mental health with either perfection...

The Edge of the World Author's name: Ahmed Al-Haqil The first time I remember dying I was ten. I saw a girl who had just left her childhood, with a puffy neck, tall and complete, walking in the alley, followed by her younger brothers....

House of Doors Author Name: Tan Tuan Eng Willie Somerset Maugham, one of the greatest writers of the first half of the 20th century, finds himself trapped in an unhappy marriage, ill health, bankrupted by reckless investments, and struggling to write. His friend Robert...

The gift of rain Author Name: Tan Tuan Eng The events of "The Gift of Rain" take place during the atmosphere of World War II on the land of... Set in the rich Malayan island of Penang, this story tells the story of a...

Space Odyssey Author's Name: Arthur C. Clarke The classic science fiction novel that never looked back at us, at space and the stars... and at ourselves. With the short story "The Guardian," which formed the basis of 2001: A Space Odyssey before becoming the...

The two sheikhs Author's name: Taha Hussein The two Rightly-Guided Caliphs who exhausted those who came after them, as no one after the era of the Prophet reached their level of justice and wisdom: Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and Umar ibn al-Khattab. Taha Hussein tells...

The true promise Author's name: Taha Hussein God's law of empowering His servants began first with the Companions of the Messenger of God. They fulfilled the qualities God Almighty stipulated for His successors on earth: true worship of Him and submission and obedience to...

lost love Author's name: Taha Hussein Between lost love and desperate love, between sinful love and forced love, souls are suspended, imaginations and spectres, and flows of the narrative art created by the dean of Arabic literature, who made it a mirror of the...

On the sidelines of the biography Author's name: Taha Hussein Ibn Hisham's "Seerat" is the most prominent work documenting Islamic history and the primary and most comprehensive source on the biography of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). It records most of...

The tormented on earth Author's name: Taha Hussein Taha Hussein excelled here in depicting several scenes from the painful Egyptian reality of the 1940s, a reality rife with poverty, ignorance, and classism; a society that cared little for those without wealth, nor looked up...

The Great Sedition, Part 2 Author's name: Taha Hussein Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib assumed the caliphate under exceptional circumstances. Discord was sweeping across the Islamic lands, and the blood of its caliph had been spilled on their soil. Ali faced many daunting tasks...

The Great Sedition, Part 1 Author's name: Taha Hussein Describing it as the "Great Fitna" is not an exaggeration. The fitna, which began during the reign of the Rightly-Guided Caliph Uthman and extended throughout the caliphate of Ali and his descendants, nearly swept the...

The Nightingale's Prayer Author's name: Taha Hussein In this timeless novel by the dean of Arabic literature, the melodious song of the nightingale blends with the cries of oppression and injustice. Through the voice of Amna, a poor rural girl, Taha Hussein tells us...