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A man came and went Author's name: Ghazi Al-Gosaibi You packed your bags and gave me the azure sea, you waved to me and I waved to you... and when I came back... I drowned in a sea of ​​blood

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

grub hunter Author's name: Amir Taj Al-Sir After his retirement, Abdullah Harfesh, a security officer, decides to write a novel. He joins literary circles and frequents the circle surrounding the famous novelist (A.T.). He learns the basics of novel writing and begins selecting his...

Autumn of Innocence Author's name: Abbas Baydoun Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2017 Masoud kills his wife and flees to Syria, where he joins an Islamist group. His son, Ghassan, grows up orphaned and raised by his uncle Jawad, bearing the burden of his father's...

Night shell Author's name: Abdo Khal During stillness, a moving act occurs, there is no such thing as coincidence. Coincidence is the moment of pause from which the equation of existence is generated... movement... life... dreams... Every movement directs us towards annihilation or life....

Death passes by here Author's name: Abdo Khal Death doesn't just pass through the village of "Al-Sawdaa"; it resides there, never leaving. And death in Al-Sawdaa is called "Al-Sawadi"; the master of the terrifying castle from which whoever enters it leaves only to the...

Witches' Resort Author's name: Amir Taj Al-Sir She got off a bus coming from the Eritrean border, fleeing the fires of war in her country. A captivating beauty landed in the wrong place, without support, money, or shelter. Her name is Abeba Tesfaye, a...

Dowry of shouting Author's name: Amir Taj Al-Sir In the "Korak" council, Adam Nazar declares his desire, shouting, "I want to be a sheikh father." His memory still echoes the cries of his father, the drummer, who wanted to perform the Hajj pilgrimage; a...

Hour of abandonment Author's name: Abbas Baydoun In the Lebanese town adjacent to the border strip, Salah, Nadim, Fawaz, and the rest of the leftist comrades feel defeated and helpless. The Israeli army is preparing to invade, and the Palestinian organizations have withdrawn towards...

craving Author's name: Amir Taj Al-Sir Abdul Nabi Samara, a native of northern Sudan, enters the eastern town as a strange teacher. The magic of Houriya Al-Musleh awaits him, leading him to an unexpected fate. She is Houriya Al-Hadrami, whose Hadrami and Gypsy origins...

The healers Author's name: Abbas Baydoun Jalal returns to his pine village. He doesn't find his grandmother's house where he grew up as it was. The villagers broke into it and smashed its furniture, believing that its owner, Hajja Hadiya, was a friend of...

The pain of the seductress Author's name: Abdo Khal Ministry of Culture and Information Award, Best Novel by a Saudi Writer Category 2013 Mabkhout entered the village as a stranger. His compassion for its girls drove him out, accused of them. Foton found no...

Loss Album Author's name: Abbas Baydoun The years jostle in his mind... He is the narrator who races against time, thinking he is deceiving time, even though his negligence has contributed to it passing faster. Through his daily narration with "Nino," his daughter's cat,...

Ebola 76 Author's name: Amir Taj Al-Sir In the cardboard huts of the most destitute residential neighborhood in Nzara, South Sudan, Louis Noa grows up to a miserable childhood. The young man, who works in a textile factory, decides to marry the first smiling...

souls Author's name: Abdo Khal In a world where reality intertwines with myth and magic, and resembles a miracle, Wahid is born. Under the care of his grandmother, parents, and Qaddar al-Jabali, who knows what no one else knows, Wahid spends his life searching...

Flowers eaten by fire Author's name: Amir Taj Al-Sir From her Italian mother she inherited beauty, and from her father wealth. She was nearly twenty when she returned from Egypt, where she had studied aesthetics, and her beauty shone on her city, “the wall,”...

Defense of humanity Author's name: Dr. Abdel Wahab El-Messiri The studies in this book address a methodological problem: the necessity of using complex models to explain human phenomena and moving away from reductionist models. Complex models are those that do not rely solely on...

Tales of Fadlallah Othman Author's name: Ibrahim Aslan It was a quiet road with no one but me. The trees were few and dense on the left sidewalk and a few cars parked underneath. I was walking alone then when I heard her laughing...

Emile and the Informants Author's name: Erich Kästner Emil was a typical child... When his mother agreed to let him travel alone by train, she had no idea that it would be the beginning of an exciting journey that would change his life. On...

Stories shorter than the lives of their heroes Author's name: Tariq Imam I wrote this work in search of poetry, as I see the story as a fish, and the poem as a hidden jewel in its bowels. I search for it in the...

Dalbshani's bullet Author's name: Iman Yahya This is a historical novel by Dr. Iman Yahya, published by Dar Al Shorouk. It narrates the atmosphere in Egypt in the period following the 1919 Revolution, the details of the assassination operation and how the British and...

Cats howling and dogs meowing Author's name: Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan On the cover of the novel we read: “As I was passing through Ramses Street, a huge monkey appeared next to me, a real monkey with thick hair, a distinctively curved body, and...

Who killed Maryam Al-Safi? Author's name: Muhammad Al-Mansi Qandil In 1970, while Mohamed El-Mansi Qandil was a student at Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, he won first prize in the story club for his story "The Song of the Empty Morgue," before including it in...