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The Blind Sindbad: Atlas of the Sea and War The novel revolves around a single accidental incident that constitutes a radical and definitive transformation in the destinies of characters who were characterized by caring, dreaming, and interaction, only to become monsters that bear no...

Tea girl Author's name: Lisa C Set in the remote mountains of Yunnan, China, "The Tea Girl" unfolds a complex human narrative, weaving together the threads of identity conflict and the tensions between modernity and tradition. The novel follows Li Yan, a girl from...

Howl's Moving Castle Author Name: Diana Wynne Jones Neil Gaiman has described Diana Wynne Jones as the best children's author of the last forty years. Her novel, Howl's Moving Castle, was written in 1986 and has since become a cult classic, suitable for reading...

In a time dominated by poverty and disease, Dilshad abandoned his only daughter to her fate. She had to find her way in a world of greed ruled by the memory of hunger. This novel makes you feel the pangs of hunger in its...

The void in my heart grew, and it pained me; my disappointment pained me, the disappointment of someone who then realized they had lost what they had found. Was I dreaming? Was it a nightmare? Am I running through the market from alley to...

Pollyanna Author: Eleanor Porter Pollyanna was originally written for children and young adults but was quickly loved by adults everywhere. It is a joyful novel despite its tragedies and pains. Pollyanna placed Eleanor Porter, its author, among the immortal writers and has held an...

Dar Khawla Author: Buthaina Al-Essa   It was the first time her firstborn seemed fragile, diminutive, and on the verge of tears. Was he not telling the truth this time? The truth that she loved him "in her twisted, spy-like way" and not as...

Labyrinth maps Author's name: Buthaina Al-Essa We sell everything, but we have no money to buy ourselves. What if a person is worth more dead than alive? Strait of Hormuz. Persian Gulf, or Arabian Gulf. Burgan Well. Zamzam Well. Fertile Crescent. Occupied Palestine. Sinai...

.. My Enemy the Idol is the sequel to Jean Webster's masterpiece "Daddy-Long-Legs", first published in 1915, and was among the top ten best-selling books in the United States in 1916. Like its first part, this novel consists of a series of letters, but...

Mail of Memories Author's name: Emma Rees When Gabriel García Márquez read Emma Reyes' letters, in which she recounted the strangest and most beautiful stories of her childhood and adolescence to a close friend, the Nobel laureate was so captivated by the Colombian writer's...

If cats disappeared from the world Author's name: Genki Kawamura From the moment a person realizes they will die, they reach a fragile compromise between the hope of life and the acceptance of death. During this time, they recall many unfulfilled dreams and experience...

Heidi Author: Johanna Spyri The novel Heidi is one of the best-selling novels of all time and one of the most famous works of Swiss literature. It has been translated from German into 50 other languages. The novel tells the story of a young...

"Living in a house full of magic is no easy feat, as you know." This is Aunt Sempronia's advice to Charmain, the heroine of the third and final part of the Howl's Moving Castle trilogy. Charmain is taken to manage the affairs of Wizard...

Grades, evaluations, and rankings today stand as obstacles to student learning, even though this was not their initial intent, as they were originally designed to solve real and urgent problems faced by teachers and school administrators. Today, grades, evaluations, and rankings have overshadowed and...

The Sumerian Civilization   Author: Khazaal Al-Majidi   The civilization of Sumer did not descend from the heavens, nor did it migrate from anywhere on Earth to settle in southern Iraq. Instead, it is a product of the Mesopotamian civilizations of prehistoric times, gradually...

The second type of unit Author's name: A group of authors From the edge of the solar system to other strange worlds, this anthology takes us on a captivating journey into the realms of fantasy and science fiction. Between wonder and contemplation, between the...

What was not mentioned in the biography of the sacrifice Author's name: Mathayel Al-Shammari She lifted her dress to mid-calf and entered the sea. I watched Sultan move further away, so I adjusted my position. As soon as the water touched her legs, she...

The religion of man Author: Firas Al-Sawah This book describes the religious phenomenon in a species known as Homo sapiens. We have found that religion is one of the key characteristics that has distinguished this species from others since it acquired the human traits...

A night that forgets its deposits Author's name: Jokha Alharthi We were sitting on two chairs next to each other. They were two chairs made of cane, wood, or cardboard. We were at home, sitting facing the door. But opposite us were two doors,...

MISS: I’ll leave, if you come with me!   JEAN: Are you mad, woman? Miss Julie running away with her valet! That’s what the papers will write the day after tomorrow, and the Count will never recover from it!    MISS: I can’t leave!...

Sumerian myths possess a rare originality that most myths worldwide lack. They were the first myths known to humans and formed the core of their earliest religion. Therefore, their sources were authentic, rooted in two unique elements: the fertile riverine nature of Mesopotamia and...

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe   Author: Daniel Defoe‎ I see Robinson Crusoe as the English Ulysses himself. James Joyce's Robinson Crusoe is a literary masterpiece, as Defoe maintained his own perspective. The mere suggestion of danger, isolation, and a deserted island...

History of creation Author: Khazal Al-Majidi This book tells the story of creation from the scientific point of view only. It is very necessary as an introduction to the history of civilizations created by man, because it will make us understand the meaning of...

Reading Manifesto Author's name: Irene Vallejo “Books are a refuge for memory, a mirror in which we see our image and become more like who we want to be. Books are boats that carry the treasure of words. And fragile universes in which our...

The light at the end of the evening Author's name: Maria Jose Ferrada The little girl takes her first steps in life and finds her way in this world. She categorizes things and memories, rearranging the universe by looking at her surroundings: she sees...

Iron Woman Author's name: Ted Hughes Lucy's attic room was pitch black. Had she been awake, she would have heard a strange sound, the loud song of a lark in the darkness above the house. Had she been standing in the garden looking up...

Iron Man Author's name: Ted Hughes Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. No one knew how far he had walked to get there. No one knew where he came from. Or what he was made of. Iron Man stood taller than...

The West: A New History of an Old Idea Author: Nisha McSweeney This is not a book about the history of "Western civilization," but about the great lie that has been taught as history, narrated as fact, and exported as the origin of civilization....

Lexical exercises Author's name: Ali Al-Majnouni If language is a subject worn down by constant use, then the texts in this book seek to examine the broad field in which language operates, beginning with its being a natural phenomenon felt on cave walls and...

The pangs of longing and the hardships of life Author's name: Ali Mahmoud Khodair I am your phantom. Your follower. Your disciple. I am the one followed in you. The follower of your followers. Overpowered by his own circumstances and time. Victorious in his...

How do we philosophize with a hammer and sickle? ‎ Author's name: Jonas Chica A book brimming with visions and intellectual provocations, it demonstrates, through the strength of its argument and the breadth of its horizons, the possibility of finding creative intersections between Nietzsche...

Strange cities Author's name: Ibtisam Azem Grief bit me like a wolf, and I felt as if it had devoured a piece of my small heart. My tongue went numb and felt heavy. I don't know why, but his laughter, and that of the...

Baghdad heretic Author's name: Jaafar Rajab It happened a lot, it went east and west, she planted some of her optimism in my heart after she warned me. I remember that I took it as a joke and said to her: “All this is...

The novel revolves around the mischievous and naughty boy Tom Sawyer, who lives in St. Petersburg, south of the Mississippi River, with his Aunt Polly, who takes care of him and his brother Sid after the death of their parents. His cousin Mary also...

The first adventure of the mind Author: Firas Al-Sawah Firas Al-Sawah's book, The Mind's First Adventure, was first published in the 1970s and has consistently been on the lists of the most important and influential Arabic books ever since. The book was published by...

God, the universe, and man Author: Firas Al-Sawah The success of my book, The Tao Te Ching - The Gospel of Taoist Wisdom, in its Chinese edition published by the Beijing Foreign Languages ​​Press, and the fact that my friend Dr. Xu Qingguo, who...

Gilgamesh Author: Firas Al-Sawah This book is considered the primary reference in the Arabic language for those interested in the Epic of Gilgamesh and for readers in general. In addition to the scholarly effort the author has expended in verifying and translating the text...

In the narrative of hope, language reinvents itself in fidelity to the image of people and place. Part of its language's submission to meaning is this inoculation with the vernacular: proverbs, poetry, prayers, and expressions deeply rooted in the local consciousness. Dr. Siham Al-Aboudi,...

Tolstoy recalls that when he was writing the part where the heroine throws herself in front of a train in Anna Karenina, he hunched over his desk and burst into tears. Anna Karenina's death made it impossible for him to control his emotions. Tolstoy...

The novel "The Sinner" by the Iraqi novelist Inaam Kachachi has been released in a new edition by Takween Publications as part of a collection of distinguished Arabic novels that included the rest of Kachachi's literary works. The novel was shortlisted for the International...

A young girl, renamed “America” in recognition of the United States’ role in liberating Kuwait, discovers that her name has become a measure of the growing anti-Western sentiment in her country. A shy Palestinian teenager is drawn into a failed suicide bombing plot orchestrated...

The novel "Suwaqi Al-Qulub" (Waterwheels of Hearts), the first novel by Iraqi writer Inaam Kachachi, was released in a new edition by Takwin Publications as part of a collection of distinguished Arabic novels, including her other works. Don't you know that hearts are like...

Camilo José Cela's novel, "The Hive," is considered one of the hundred most important novels in 20th-century Spain. In fact, it is regarded as one of the foundational novels of contemporary Spanish literature. Despite its initial publication in Argentina in 1945, the novel remained...

The World of Arrietty the Borrower   “People are good and bad. Some are honest, and some are cunning; their temperaments change according to the situation. If animals could talk, they would say the same thing. Stay away from their path, that's what I...

Bernardo Kucinski rose to prominence with his 2011 novel "K.: Report on an Investigation." His works revolve around the "black hole" of memory during Brazil's dictatorship (1964-1985), making his literary output a cohesive literary project that confronts policies of oblivion and the assassination of...

This novel sheds light on a segment of Palestinian life in the 1980s, during the Stone Intifada, where the "neighborhood" with its stories and people plays the main role. Children have a mischievous and hesitant presence when faced with the forbidden questions of life....

It's night. It's day. It's light. It's dark. It's very hot. It's very cold. It's rainy. It's very sunny. It's very dry. It's very humid. But we fight all the time. No matter what happens, we always fight. All the time, bullets devour everything,...

"Karl, a bright sixteen-year-old, whose poor parents had sent him to America because a maid had seduced him and borne his child, stood on the ship's deck. As the vessel slowed, entering New York harbor, he saw the Statue of Liberty, which he had...

Mandaean Mythology Author: Khazal Al Majidi     This book may be the first of its kind in both the Arabic and foreign libraries, as it delves into a rare subject that many shy away from due to the need for extensive knowledge in...

Egyptian Religion Author: Khazal Al-Majidi     Despite the abundance of books discussing Egyptian religion and its details, the distinction of this book lies in its unprecedented classification of the eight main and secondary components of religion within Egyptian religion. Each component occupies an...