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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...

My father's shrine Author's name: Tariq Imam “My father sent for me, and I knew that today I would die… A strange saint, in a remote desert city, hundreds of years after his death, fathers a child with one of the city’s girls. Is...

mirage trees Author's name: Ibrahim Abdel Majeed The new edition of "Mirage Trees" includes the complete short stories of the great writer Ibrahim Abdel Majeed, bringing together eighteen previously unpublished stories. The stories are divided into four groups: "Old Ships," "Closing Windows," "The Tree...

Catching wind Author's name: Ibrahim Al-Mazni In this important book, Al-Mazni brings together a number of his most important articles, which address his views on major thinkers from the East and the West, and his opinion on the crisis surrounding Taha Hussein's book "On...

Ibrahim Al-Kateb Author's name: Ibrahim Al-Mazni In Al-Mazni's smooth and enjoyable style, we follow the love affairs of Ibrahim the writer, one of the most important figures in modern Arabic literature. Ibrahim escapes from his love affair with his nurse, Mary, to the home...

Ibrahim II Author's name: Ibrahim Al-Mazni One of the founding fathers of modern Arabic writing, including poetry, novels, journalism, criticism, and translation, he founded the Diwan Literary Group with Al-Aqqad and Abd al-Rahman Shukri to defend modernity against classical literature. His engaging articles, laced...

Layalina Bar Author's name: Ahmed Al-Fakharani Noah Al-Rahimi, the extra, resorts to a trick to infiltrate Layalina Bar, a bar frequented only by an elite group of intellectuals. He hopes to understand, by emulating them, the secret that turned him into a idiot with...

Al-Farouk Omar Author's name: Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi Omar was the first ruler in history to guarantee people freedom of belief and freedom of thought, and to nurture human dignity, respect, determination and pride. He was the first ruler in Islam to gather people to...

I went to the waterfall Author's name: Bahaa Taher Bahaa Taher is a clear writer who is in control of his material and tools, new in his vision and unique in the type of his performance. Honesty is the first tone that greets you...

Short Stories - Bahaa Taher Author's name: Bahaa Taher Some of Bahaa Taher's short stories include: "The Engagement", "Yesterday I Dreamed of You", "I Am the King, I Came", "East of the Palm Trees", and "Doha Said"

Writing with a scalpel Author's name: Iman Yahya A novel that invades the world of hospitals and universities, revealing what was unspoken during and after the stormy years of the January Revolution. He knows that a skilled surgeon is the one who reaches his...

Ash'ab, the king of parasites Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim The Arabs saw the highest art in brevity, that is, concentration, while the West sees the richest art in prolixity, that is, analysis. If we could reconcile the two theories and combine the two arts,...

Cockroach's fate Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim Among all his plays, "The Fate of a Cockroach" stands out for its angry, protesting tone, a strong tone that had never appeared in Al-Hakim's works before! It's as if he foresaw with his artistic flair the events...

Bird from the East Author's name: Tawfiq Al-Hakim With the publication of this novel in 1938, Tawfiq al-Hakim added a new dimension to his pioneering work, cementing his role as one of the fathers of the Arabic novel with his easy-going style, his astonishing...

Arab facts Author's name: Muhammad Al-Mansi Qandil Graves conceal bodies, but souls remain alive and free, filling the ether around us and seeping into our living moments to tell their stories. History never dies, and its specters never cease to take shape: kings, princes,...

Dinner with Aisha Author's name: Muhammad Al-Mansi Qandil It's not an ordinary dinner. It's a first date between a shy young man and an intrusive girl. It doesn't end like any other romantic date, but rather turns into a strange experience that lies on...

The journey Author's name: Radwa Ashour Running is a state I always live in. In my childhood, the energy of life within me was insistent and overflowing, so I ran. In my adolescence, I ran out of fear of my growing body and the...

Hide and seek Author's name: Walid Alaa El-Din In "Hide and Seek," a boy and a girl find themselves on the stage of life, a place of spectacle, selection, and participation. Spectacle requires two eyes, selection requires knowledge, and participation cannot take place without...