{"title":"Takween Publications","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9789921775686","title":"Labyrinth maps ","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eLabyrinth maps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e Author's name: Buthaina Al-Essa \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\" class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eWe sell everything, but we have no money to buy ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e What if a person is worth more dead than alive?\u003cbr\u003e Strait of Hormuz. Persian Gulf, or Arabian Gulf. Burgan Well. Zamzam Well. Fertile Crescent. Occupied Palestine. Sinai Delta. Red Sea. Bab el-Mandeb Strait\u003cbr\u003e From strait to strait... we search for meaning\u003cbr\u003e If there is nothing to say\u003cbr\u003e Say what cannot be said\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41972204798106,"sku":"9789921775686","price":75.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/1_ea84d772-4237-4de1-87fb-6ac4069e919c_webp.jpg?v=1728137757"},{"product_id":"9789921723045","title":"My arch enemy","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e.. 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With this frequent looking back, I have begun to notice the emptiness staining our social memory and political archives; the truncated narratives and flat stories, and the manifestations of lazy binary thinking, where crude alignments trample every day on the old face of the old woman of truth, and where a regression to a climate of absolute certainties daily blocks the path for those who dare to know. It is a world created by censorship, which we often dare to reject on legal or political grounds, yet we have not approached closely enough to understand its social and moral impact, nor have we spoken sufficiently about the distortions afflicting its nurturing society. Otherwise, how come most of us have come to peer at the world through the eye of the censor and resort to its logic? In a society where censorship transcends its physical existence as an administrative apparatus, forming a dominant and oppressive culture in every detail, it is difficult for one to adopt a position based on clear and named data, to test one's convictions or discover them. 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Charmain is taken to manage the affairs of Wizard High Norland's house, Great Uncle William, at Aunt Sempronia's recommendation. Charmain was well-raised by her parents, the Bakers, but they overdid it, shielding her from everything in their desire for her to become a \"respectable\" girl. She could do nothing but read books, burying her nose in them all the time. Therefore, she seeks to fulfill her dream of joining the King of High Norland and his daughter Princess Hilda in cataloging their library. In the wizard's house, Charmain learns simple things, like washing dishes and tidying the house, and the art of laundry, so she doesn't wash a red outfit with white clothes. She tries to be kind to Weave and Peter, who teach her a lot, even though he can't distinguish between right and left. In the small house – seemingly – with its single door that takes them to several places, Charmain discovers her many hidden talents. 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And what could she do with the brutal contradiction between the two, in that she wanted to take him back under her wing like a wet chick, and in that she had never forgiven him for being \"the son of his monstrous place in his monstrous time\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45238865395866,"sku":"9789921808513","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/44248-250x375_webp_webp.jpg?v=1727361910"},{"product_id":"soon0066","title":"Dilshad: The Story of Blood and Gold, Part Two","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWas I dreaming? Was it a nightmare? Am I running through the market from alley to alley and never arriving? My eyes fell upon my dusty feet, my feet that run and never reach him. I felt the pain of their bare running. Where did my sandals fall?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eI gazed at them, remembering when the valley pebbles would burn the soles of my feet, and my father would drip oil into his palm and rub them with it. 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A novel that makes you feel the pang of hunger in its words, you feel your body that has begun to waste away and sap in search of a morsel here and there, about the absence that takes the characters of the novel towards death sometimes or towards another life and the experience of another hunger. I can almost see Dilshad’s face laughing from the pain, loss, hunger and desolation, I can almost search with him for what will silence that hungry mouth. This novel, life, this dangerous game, as soon as it begins, the torrent of its tragedies sweeps you away to cry and laugh and smell the scents of death and poverty, then you let the current take you to paths that fate draws for its characters.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eBiography of Blood and Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The emptiness in my heart grew and hurt me, and my disappointment hurt me, disappointment over something and then realizing that he had lost what he had found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Was I dreaming? Was it a nightmare? Running in the market from one alley to another without reaching him? My eyes fell on my dusty feet, my feet that ran but did not reach him. I felt the pain of their barefoot running. Where did my shoes fall?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e I stared at them for a long time, remembering when the valley pebbles would burn the soles of my feet, and my father would drip oil into his palm and rub it on them. The pain didn’t go away at once, but faded with time as he sang to me, and I sang along, each of us singing to the other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45252776558746,"sku":"SET0106","price":140.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/Photoroom-20240922-000601.png?v=1726949188"},{"product_id":"bkf0346","title":"Arrietty's Borrowers","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eThe World of Arrietty the Borrower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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 was always told. No matter what they promise you, no one has gained good from humans.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel \"The Borrowers\" was first published in 1952, winning the Carnegie Medal in the 1950s, followed by four sequels and a short story by Norton. The novel has been adapted into films many times, but the most famous adaptation is the anime film The Secret World of Arrietty, produced by Studio Ghibli and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi in 2010. Mary Norton wrote the story of the Borrowers, inspired by her childhood strolls in the countryside with her brothers, strolls that filled her with wonder at everything, much to her brothers' annoyance because she would linger and contemplate everything she saw. Or what she didn't see, as young Mary had poor eyesight, which gave her a vivid imagination that made her see things differently from reality! During one of those strolls, it occurred to her to wonder about the nature of life for tiny people who live in houses and \"borrow\" what they need from their owners. Norton wrote in a letter to a friend just before World War II in 1940: \"The world we know has changed, and the memory of the Borrowers returned to me from childhood. Due to tragic abject poverty, men, women, and children were forced to live the kind of life I imagined for the little people. 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Children have a mischievous and hesitant presence when faced with the forbidden questions of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne day, two boys from the neighborhoods of Jenin agreed to place a bag containing a broken radio on the path of the occupation army patrols and extend a wire from it to the side of the street, making it look like a suspicious object capable of confusing and terrifying the soldiers. \"This way we'll mess with them,\" said Ziad. 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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!   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eMISS: I can’t leave! I can’t stay! Help me! I’m exhausted, to an endless degree – command me! Make me move, for I can no longer think, or do anything…!  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eJEAN: Do you, Miss, see what scum you all are? Why the boasting and arrogance, as if you were gods of creation? Very well: I will command you! Go upstairs, change your clothes, get some money for the journey, and come back down here!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eJOHAN AUGUST STRINDBERG (1849 - 1912): Playwright, novelist, poet, painter, translator, journalist, and photographer. 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It has previously been translated into Arabic, but it is presented here as a direct translation from the Swedish language, from the first edition of its original text, not from a third language, including Strindberg's famous preface to the play, which was considered his literary manifesto.    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub - عصير الكتب","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45353074983066,"sku":"9789921808155","price":49.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20240901162629456968.jpg?v=1731442831"},{"product_id":"9789921808162","title":"Away from the grades ","description":"\u003cp class=\"ql-direction-rtl\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eGrades, 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 even undermined the primary purpose of schooling: learning. Instead of guiding and motivating the development of students' knowledge and skills, these tools have become ends in themselves. This has been true for so long that many of us no longer see it as a problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub - عصير الكتب","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45355433001114,"sku":"9789921808162","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/2024090314454310965.jpg?v=1731614451"},{"product_id":"9789921808629","title":"A night that forgets its deposits","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eA night that forgets its deposits\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Jokha Alharthi\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e We were sitting on two chairs next to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThey were two chairs made of cane, wood, or cardboard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e We were at home, sitting facing the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e But opposite us were two doors, not just one. We were looking straight at both doors,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e In front of us was a small table with two keys on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e He reached out, grabbed the two keys, and then handed me one without looking back. I locked the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e I grabbed the key, then got up. 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Here, the work appears as a kind of rosy novel about impossible relationships, class differences, and happy endings. Costanza, the novel's heroine and main driver, with her strange secret and lavish beauty, is an image of the human desire for perfection in all things, not only in images, but also in intentions, self-esteem, conviction, and tolerance. Cervantes's works are among the most widely read, printed, translated, and studied books in the world. Indeed, for critics and a wide segment of readers, Cervantes is considered the first humanist writer and the greatest novelist in the history of literature. His writings remain closely connected to our dreams, aspirations, and even our repeated losses. Cervantes's works are true journeys that do not end with their publication, but rather remain active and alive even if long periods of time pass and human nature and times change. This novel is part of a special project of his twelve short novels, which we present sequentially and in independent books, one after the other. Cervantes wrote them over separate periods and published them in 1613. We translate them and introduce them to the Arab reader as an important sample of the works of the author of the global masterpiece (Don Quixote), novels that are no less magnificent than his larger work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45811346735258,"sku":"9789921775051","price":28.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/images-2025-06-01T141101.377.jpg?v=1748772854"},{"product_id":"9789933429679","title":"Gilgamesh","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Firas Al-Sawah\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThis 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 of the Babylonian epic, he has initially provided us with a broad introduction to understanding the literary, mythological, and historical backgrounds of the epic. He then followed the text with an interesting analytical study that sheds light on the hidden meanings and purposes of the epic, and concluded with an appendix in which he examined the effects of the epic on the cultures of the ancient world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839405121690,"sku":"9789933429679","price":85.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20210307163218708965.jpg?v=1749655107"},{"product_id":"9789933579029","title":"History of Jerusalem","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eHistory of Jerusalem\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Firas Al-Sawah\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e“My treatment of the history of ancient Palestine in this book takes Jerusalem as a starting and ending point, and as the axis around which the entire research revolves. This is in an attempt to remove the veil of myth from this city and reveal its true history, as well as the history of Palestine buried beneath a mound of biblical tales and other mounds of historical research afflicted with biblical colorblindness.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThe research covers a period of more than two thousand years of the history of Jerusalem, in the context of the history of Palestine, and also covers three thousand years of the history of Greater Palestine in the general context of the history of Syria and the ancient East in general. Our goal in all of this is to answer a few specific questions: - Who are the Jews? When was the Jewish ethnicity formed in Palestine? - When, where, and how did the Jewish religion arise? - Did the Jews have a political entity in Palestine? What was the temporal and geographical scope of this entity, if it existed? - Was Palestine ever Jewish? - What is the relationship between Jewish history, which began in the fifth century BC, and the history of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in particular, and the history of Greater Palestine in general?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839409250458,"sku":"9789933579029","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/2020072023473523596105.jpg?v=1749655340"},{"product_id":"9789933654528","title":"The Mystery of Ishtar, the Feminine Goddess and the Origin of Religion and Myth","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eThe Riddle of Ishtar\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Firas Al-Sawah\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThe mystery of Ishtar is not limited to the multiplicity of names and the diversity of manifestations, but extends to everything related to her, from characteristics, functions, rituals, myths, and hymns. Perhaps the Babylonian mystery of Ishtar is a model for similar riddles among the Ishtars of other cultures. Each of her secrets leads to another, and we can hardly grasp her in one form before it dissolves into another, or grasp her in one form before it turns into its opposite. She is the goddess of life and the fertility of nature, she is destruction and devastation, the nurturer of war, a lover at night and a fighter during the day, tending battlefields and raiding altars. She is the compassionate mother, the patroness of pregnant and nursing mothers, ever present near the birth crib. She is the dark, gaping gate devouring the corpses of humans. She is the goddess of sexual pleasure. She is the one who strips men of their masculinity and castrates them at her feet, the bed of heroes. She is the shining moon and the planet Venus. She is the light and its symbol is the eternal flame. She is darkness and gloom and what is hidden. She is the killer, she is the healer, she is the eternal virgin, she is the saving mother. She is the virgin, she is the holy prostitute. She is the goddess of wisdom, she is the mistress of madness. She is the illumination of knowledge, she is the unconsciousness and slumber of the senses. In her, contradictions trust and discordant things are reconciled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839414100122,"sku":"9789933654528","price":85.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20201021941194019659.jpg?v=1749655513"},{"product_id":"9789933579166","title":"Introduction to the Texts of the Ancient East","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eIntroduction to the Texts of the Ancient East\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Firas Al-Sawah\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThis book aims to introduce the most important literary texts of ancient Eastern cultures, including myths, epics, proverbs, hymns, prayers, and other works. The author has expanded upon these texts with a number of studies that shed light on this literature and facilitate its understanding and appreciation. Some of these texts are presented in full, while others are presented through excerpts that express their spirit and the intentions of their authors, especially when the clay tablets are not entirely legible due to fractures and distortions. Although the author has accompanied his texts with explanations and analyses, he has kept them to the necessary minimum so as not to bore the inexperienced reader. 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We have found that religion is one of the key characteristics that has distinguished this species from others since it acquired the human traits we possess today, more than one hundred thousand years before our era. From that early time of its complete independence from other living species on this planet, religion has accompanied it as a fundamental and important motivator in human life throughout the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e My aim is to understand the religious phenomenon as it is, and its true nature, by describing it accurately and isolating it from the rest of the phenomena of human culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e What is religion? This is the fundamental question we will seek to answer satisfactorily together. Therefore, what I present to the reader in the following pages is a contribution to the phenomenology of religion, distinguished, I hope, by its novel approaches, analyses, and conclusions. A work appearing at this late stage, after the flourishing of this type of research globally, must necessarily have compelling justifications for its existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839420555418,"sku":"9789933579180","price":95.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/202007221428356609614.jpg?v=1749655859"},{"product_id":"9789933579494","title":"Myth and Meaning","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eMyth and meaning\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Firas Al-Sawah\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThis book addresses a number of sensitive topics, addressed by the author using his usual rigorous and disciplined scientific inductive approach. These include: the function of myth and its role in individual and collective life; meaning, myth, and its hidden implications; the connection between myth and religion and religious beliefs; ritual and myth; the model of the Tammuz hymns; myth and history; between religion and ethics in Eastern religions; beliefs of the ancient East: pagan or monotheistic?; the image of the biblical God and its implications for biblical ethics; and other topics that we have revisited and documented with textual evidence from myths, rituals, and prayers, most of which are presented in Arabic for the first time. This makes \"Myth and Meaning\" an engaging literary book, in addition to being a profound intellectual investigation. This research was not written over long periods, nor published in newspapers or periodicals. Rather, it was written steadily over two years, based on previous drafts, scattered notes, and preliminary translations prepared by the author of several ancient Eastern texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839422619802,"sku":"9789933579494","price":85.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/202007221430557779615.jpg?v=1749656057"},{"product_id":"9789933654535","title":"God, the universe, and man","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eGod, the universe, and man\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Firas Al-Sawah\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThis book contains, in its introduction, my answers to questions I have often been asked in newspaper, radio, and television interviews, such as: Why did you choose to write about mythology and religion? Or, Why don't we find you expressing a decisive opinion on religious issues? Or, Do your writings support an anti-religious position? I then moved on to answer questions I have often encountered among others regarding religious issues. After each answer, I took the reader's position and proposed potential questions that might be built upon that answer. Thus, the work proceeded, through the letters \"s\" and \"g\", until I achieved what I was striving for: formulating a concise vision of the history of religious ideas in their interaction and relationships with each other throughout the course of human culture. This history falls within the stream of what is called the general history of ideas, a new cognitive system in which wisdom, philosophical, and religious ideas are unified. Although religion differs from wisdom and philosophy in its ritual system that aims to establish a link between the sacred and the profane, in its doctrinal aspect it does not differ from philosophy in terms of providing answers to the major human questions. Both systems are organized thinking about the affairs of life and the universe. Therefore, in our study of religious ideas throughout history, we are studying the most important aspect of the general history of ideas, because religious ideas have an influence on humans that is unparalleled by the influence of philosophical ideas. As for why I chose the question method and preferred it to continuous narration, that is the story...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839436873882,"sku":"9789933654535","price":70.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20210307152159238962.jpg?v=1749656211"},{"product_id":"9789933579906","title":"Chapters of Chinese Philosophy","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e God, the universe, and man\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Firas Al-Sawah\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e 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 revised my translation of the Tao Te Ching from the original Chinese, and I agreed with another publishing house to issue a new edition, prompted us to consider another joint work on the Dialogues of Confucius and his disciple Mencius, on which Confucian philosophy and its subsequent schools were based.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839442477210,"sku":"9789933579906","price":95.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/202007131522223039670.jpg?v=1749656350"},{"product_id":"9789933654160","title":"The Mind's First Adventure","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eThe first adventure of the mind\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n \u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eAuthor: Firas Al-Sawah\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The book was published by Dar Al-Takween as part of a series of important thought books that includes the project of thinker and historian Firas Al-Sawah in a series of 23 books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e About the book The First Adventure of the Mind\u003cbr\u003e A myth is a traditional, sacred story, meaning it has been passed down from generation to generation through oral narration. This makes it the collective memory that preserves its values, customs, rituals, and wisdom, passing them on to successive generations and giving it the power to dominate souls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIt is the most powerful tool for education and normalization, and the channel through which a culture establishes its existence and continuity across generations. Even during periods of widespread writing, oral myth did not lose its power and influence. Clay tablets, preserved in temples and royal libraries, served only as a safeguard against distortion through transmission. Oral tradition remained the primary means of its transmission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e On more than one occasion, myths were recited or chanted at public religious celebrations, such as the Babylonian New Year festivals, where the Babylonian creation myth was recited and enacted, and the spring festivals, where the sufferings of the god Tammuz were recited and enacted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eMoreover, myth is also a literary text, presented in the most splendid artistic form possible, and in the most powerful and influential form on the soul, which increased its control and influence. Literature and poetry had to wait a long time before separating themselves from myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Most Syrian, Sumerian, and Babylonian myths were put into the most beautiful poetic form possible. Homer put most of the popular myths of his time into verse in the Odyssey and the Iliad. In addition to poetry and literature, myth gave rise to other arts, such as theater, which began its era by representing the main myths at religious festivals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIt also promoted other arts, such as singing, music, and others. Following this, a book on the mythology of the ancient East, now in its thirteenth edition, is available to readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The researcher's goal in writing this book is to introduce mythology in ancient Syria and Mesopotamia, relying on the full texts of the most important known myths, which were evoked through more than one text and more than one translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The researcher's skill in presenting each myth in its general context of myths was evident, as each myth in this study took its place within the picture of myths as a whole, deriving its interpretation from the overall structure of the study.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Regarding his cultural project, Firas Al-Sawah says:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eWhen the stack of my twenty-three books was placed before me on the table at Dar Al-Takween, to discuss the procedures for issuing them in the Collected Works edition, I contemplated them as if I were looking at the harvest of a lifetime. Forty years separate my first book, “The First Adventure of the Mind,” and my last, “God, the Universe, and Man.” This project is gradually integrating twenty-three cognitive adventures, which I wanted to share with my readers who have followed me throughout these four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eA book is like a living organism in its life cycle: it is born, grows, grows strong, and then dies. You can only find it in public libraries. However, some books break this rule and become classics, printed and passed down through generations in every era. Will the adventure book become a classic after remaining a knight in shining armor in bookstore windows and on bookstore shelves across the Arab world for forty years? This is what the coming years will answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45839447851162,"sku":"9789933654160","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/2020071912434180961.jpg?v=1749656721"},{"product_id":"9789921723090","title":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe 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 lives with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eMark Twain's book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, translated by Jihad Al-Shebini, was published by Takween Publications in a joint edition with Dar Al-Rafidain, as part of a distinguished collection of translated novels that includes several classics of world literature, including the second part, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eSynopsis of the novel Tom Sawyer\u003cbr\u003eThat drop was falling when the pyramids were still new, when Troy fell, when the foundations of Rome were laid, when Christ was crucified, when the conquerors founded the Greek Empire, when Columbus sailed, and when the Lexington massacre was still news. It is falling now, and it will continue to fall when all these things become in the age of history, the twilight of tradition, and swallowed by the thick night of oblivion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eDoes everything have a purpose and a mission? Has this drop been falling patiently for five thousand years, to be there when this human insect, who breathes it in, needs it? And does it have another important task to achieve after ten thousand years? It doesn't matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eMany, many years have passed since the wretched half-breed carved the stone, so that the priceless drops might collect, but to this day, the longest thing a tourist stares at, when he comes to see the sights of McDougal's Cave, is that pathetic stone and the slowly falling water. Injun Joe's cup stands at the top of the list of the cave's wonders; even Aladdin's palace cannot compete with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eQuotes from the book Tom Sawyer\u003cbr\u003eSaturday morning arrived, and the whole world was bright and fresh; there was a song in every heart, joy on every face, and merriment in every step.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45991586955418,"sku":"9789921723090","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/2020051817129168962.jpg?v=1753626779"},{"product_id":"9789922607085","title":"History of creation","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eHistory of creation\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Khazal Al-Majidi\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThis 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 the slow and complex development of this existence, and will push us to a clear vision of these civilizations, which are the last chain in the evolution of the current existence, which is still evolving and changing every day. They are the product of a being that is still ambiguous, inhabited by ignorance, narrow fanatic tendencies, and unbridled instincts, and is still unable to coexist with one another, despite all this great strides that the history of civilizations has traveled. Whoever reads this book will feel a sense of comfort and perhaps purification on the one hand, because it will wash away from his mind and soul all the illusory ideas inherited from him about the origin of the universe, the earth, life, and man, and a feeling of humility on the other hand, because he will know that man is an ordinary being in a long chain of beings, some of whom still live with him and whose advantage is that he possesses the blessing of reason, and that the Earth is not the center of the universe, but rather a neglected grain of sand in a distant arm of one of the arms of one of the galaxies, and that the universe, too, is a bubble A giant that is still swelling and will subside, shrink and disappear one day. Science is what makes man pure and humble, and what makes him discover the truth without falsehood or embellishment. As for other activities such as philosophy, poetry, literature, art, games, etc., they are techniques for psychological balance for man, instilling in him contemplation and ecstasy, before and after he knows the truth revealed by science. They are not concerned, precisely, with revealing the truth of what happened and what is happening. Is the history of the universe from its beginning until our time 13.7 billion years? Is the history of the Earth 4.5 billion years? Is the history of life 4 billion years? Is the history of man 2.5 million years? When and how did these histories begin and how will they end? This book will attempt to answer these questions in a simple and scientific language, at the same time, accompanied by the necessary images and explanations and based on the most important and latest scientific references in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub - عصير الكتب","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46664671297690,"sku":"9789922607085","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/660160c76e835-1711366343.jpg?v=1760438691"},{"product_id":"9789922607115","title":"prehistoric civilizations","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eprehistoric civilizations\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Khazal Al-Majidi\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Human history is divided into two main phases: prehistory, which constitutes 98% of human history, and the historical era, which occupies 2% of human history. There is no doubt that this vast gap between the two phases in terms of time is the main reason that makes us look with curiosity at this very long history of prehistory, which is scarce in information and which seems like a long night in which humans were immersed, struggling with the challenges of disappearance and extinction compared to the short but crowded historical eras, with many events and civilizations up to the present day. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub - عصير الكتب","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46664686665882,"sku":"9789922607115","price":72.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/6645deed4580f-1715855085.jpg?v=1760439516"},{"product_id":"9789921775037","title":"Baghdad heretic","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eBaghdad heretic\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Jaafar Rajab\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIt 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 on my palm.” She said: “Yes, you naive one, it is your destiny drawn on your hands!” I said defiantly: “Rather, I draw my destiny with my own hands!” She laughed mockingly and said: \"Don't be so confident, you naive girl. Many have given up after realizing that the wind does not blow at the captain's command, the rains do not fall at the monks' prayers, and earthquakes are not intimidated by the sultan's armies. They always thought that the world was in their hands, and when they were in his hands, they thought they were deeply rooted trees that the winds could not break nor the storms bend, and when they were, they were merely leaves of trees in the path of the autumn winds, which threw them where they hated, not where they loved. 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This personal account of Palestinian history since the Nakba highlights how forced displacement and systematic oppression can be met not only with anger or resignation, but also with solidarity, kindness, and above all, love. Despite the pain of exile and the harshness of reality, this story keeps the flame of hope alive, as the struggle continues tirelessly until the dream of complete liberation is realized.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Ilan Pappe, historian and academic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThe book “My Brother and My Land: A Tale from Palestine” is the fruit of literary and human collaboration between Sirine Sawalha and Sami Hormuz, through which they recounted the story of the Palestinian Sawalha family, starting from the Nakba of 1948 up to the present time, within a framework that embodies a deep and comprehensive vision of the Palestinian cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The text is distinguished by its complex narrative techniques, ranging from personal memory narrative to research documentation, where issues of identity, exile, and belonging are explored in an act of resistance against attempts to erase the Palestinian narrative from collective memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIn 1999, when Sireen visited her brother Iyad, who was imprisoned in Ashkelon prison, he called out to her before she left the prison: “For God’s sake, Sireen, don’t forget me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e This book is living proof that Sirine has not forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Quotes from the book \"The Heretic of Baghdad\"\u003cbr\u003e Rather, it is in the heart, and because it is in the heart, you think it is everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e I often wonder whether this religion truly came to save humanity or to justify humanity's ugly deeds.\u003cbr\u003e It is love, my friend, that overflowed from the first cause of this universe, so the celestial bodies and moons, the earth, the sky, the mountains, the rivers, the rains, the flowers, and (Saba), the most delicate of the world’s creatures, are an overflow from that first that is before everything, and they are more beautiful than everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46775809212570,"sku":"9789921808797","price":77.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20250908107459989628.png?v=1763134286"},{"product_id":"9789921775228","title":"The day the sun died","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eThe day the sun died\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Jan Lianke\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eAfter these cries, the ball of fire that was my father stopped advancing. It stopped for a moment; a moment equal to my father's entire life. Then it rose again, climbing over that small rise in the pool floor, and the flames swelled anew, rising higher and higher. My father did not move, nor did he cry out. He stood there, silent, surrounded by flames that devoured the twigs, grass, and clothing around him. He let the fire consume everything in its path. A huge fire blazed up in the center of the pit, at first the size of a mat, then spreading to the size of a large house. In the blink of an eye, it covered the twigs and my father, who, like a blazing column, rose toward the sky and spread all around. Blue and red flames, once they pierced the oil, turned yellow, forming a huge golden ball. And in the center of that ball stood my father, like a blazing tower at the center of the world, swaying, swaying, but he did not fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e A night without dawn, its hours too long to count, in which humanity's darkest desires, obsessions, and selfishness are laid bare. A somber epic where reality merges with myth, and the last glimmer of light fades. This is the tale of \"The Great Night of Sleepwalking,\" narrated by fourteen-year-old Li Nian Nian. We accompany the boy and his father, the owner of the \"New World\" funeral shop, who finds himself facing a near-miraculous task: will he be able to resurrect the dead sun? Will he succeed in his desperate attempt to save the town from chaos and madness?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThrough a novel in which he is a protagonist, Yan Lianke returns to us with his dark worlds, confronting us once again with profound and unsettling questions about the brutality of power, the decline of morality, and the darkness that never lifts. Yan Lianke, recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize in 2014 for his body of work, is one of the most important and prominent voices in contemporary Chinese literature. His works have been translated into dozens of languages ​​and have garnered the attention of critics and readers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46775897653402,"sku":"9789921775228","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20250908102769625.png?v=1763134458"},{"product_id":"9789921808889","title":"Tea girl","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eTea girl\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Lisa C\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eSet 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 the Akha tribe, whose life is dedicated to cultivating Boer tea, a ritual passed down for centuries. But the arrival of the first jeep in the village—the first shock of modernity—shatters the social fabric, setting Li Yan on a bitter journey toward individual liberation, defying the horrific tragedy she faced as a result of tribal custom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThe novel reveals the alienation of motherhood; between a mother lost in her silence and a daughter living a comfortable life with her adoptive family, a life lacking only the essential element of life itself. This novel is a literary history of the fading heritage of the Akha people, deconstructing the dichotomies of sacrifice and liberation. Through a cross-cultural narrative, the novel raises questions about how indigenous communities are exploited and their identities eroded. It is a novel like tea, brewing slowly, with its bittersweetness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46775903977626,"sku":"9789921808889","price":84.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/202509088547157965.png?v=1763134653"},{"product_id":"9789921808704","title":"Strange cities","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eStrange cities\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Ibtisam Azem\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eGrief 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 other Ashkenazi doctor he'd brought to examine my back, stuck in my mind. I said nothing. My mother and I remained silent for the rest of the journey; neither of us looked at the other. We simply gazed at the filthy world through the bus window. I felt the weight of my back, the back of a monkey, which I had become without realizing it. And I continued to gaze at the filthy world through the bus window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46775920328858,"sku":"9789921808704","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20250908953377859622.png?v=1763134938"},{"product_id":"9789921775952","title":"I hate indifferent people ","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eI hate indifferent people\u003c\/span\u003e \n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"no-js-hidden\" id=\"price-template--21469555163419__main\" role=\"status\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"price price--large price--show-badge\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"price__container\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e‎\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Antonio Gramsci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eWhen we reread Gramsci’s short essays today, written in a turbulent moment between 1916 and 1918, we do not return to them as relics of a past struggle, but as arduous attempts to think within time, to understand how reality is made and reproduced daily, and to pose a serious question: Why do we accept this reality? And who defined the lexicon, distributed the roles, and decided who speaks on behalf of whom?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIn this book, we do not encounter Gramsci in prison, but rather Gramsci in his formative years, the Gramsci who has not yet fallen silent to write his journals of reflections, but continues to write amidst the clamor, amidst the defeats, amidst an almost daily sense of failure. He does so in a language that does not transcend language, but rather attempts to grasp the essence of things at the moment of their birth, or the moment of their explosion. While the reader may find some useful theories within the book, Gramsci is primarily not a theorist here, but a prospector; he is not searching for gold, but for a new name for what he sees. A name that is neither conciliatory, nor complicit, nor repetitive. Therefore, his aversion to indifference is not merely a fervent moral outburst, but a necessary condition for any serious politics. For what ultimately paralyzes politics is not the absence of a project, but the absence of judgment, the absence of discernment, and the absence of the courage to call things by their names.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791253754010,"sku":"9789921775952","price":49.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/2025090884810629962.png?v=1763365462"},{"product_id":"9789921808902","title":"I became a shadow","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eI became a shadow\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Bushra Al-Shammari\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Your voice fails you, you choke on words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e She is unable to swallow it or spit it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e It rattles within him, through a lifetime's journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e She is searching for the many synonyms for silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e On the conflicting emotions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e About swallowing words in the depths of oblivion's mouth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e As if nothing could draw the feeling towards salvation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Where drowning is the desired end!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e This silent need,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The ambiguous space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The labyrinth, steeped in desolation, lies between you and yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e What is between you\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Distance of a lifetime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e And the reflection of the road!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791266926746,"sku":"9789921808902","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20250908924111479613.png?v=1763365817"},{"product_id":"9789921808261","title":"How do we philosophize with a hammer and sickle? ","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eHow do we philosophize with a hammer and sickle?\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"no-js-hidden\" id=\"price-template--21469555163419__main\" role=\"status\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"price price--large price--show-badge\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"price__container\" style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e‎\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Jonas Chica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eA 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 and Marx in our contemporary era: the author combines Nietzsche’s hammer that shatters intellectual idols, and Marx’s sickle that reaps unjust economic and social structures, and dismantles the repeated myths about the two thinkers, to present a clear and sober introduction to reading them together, thus reviving the socialist imagination of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThe book criticizes dogmatic rigidity and simplistic interpretations of Marxist thought, calling for its revival as a living philosophy of liberation and creativity, not merely a rigid economic theory or moralizing dogma. Through a meticulous analytical reading, the work reveals a critical energy capable of questioning modernity, deconstructing the contradictions of capitalism, and restoring the authentic meaning of human liberation, far removed from empty slogans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIt is a vibrant contribution to the philosophy of matter, becoming, and historical criticism, and an open laboratory for reflecting on new values, restoring philosophy to its role as a living act and a tool for creation, not a static icon. For this reason, this work has been widely discussed in academic and cultural circles, as an invitation to rediscover Nietzsche and Marx together as two driving forces of thought and action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e It is a book for those seeking a bolder and more vibrant left, a left that carries the hammer of criticism and the spirit of construction, and looks forward to a freer and more humane world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791291961498,"sku":"9789921808261","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20250908951546169621.png?v=1763366050"},{"product_id":"9789921808766","title":"A Brief History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eA Brief History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Ilan Pappe\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIn this book, as in all his other works, Ilan Pappe subjects Zionism to rigorous critical analysis. He argues that it was not a national liberation movement for the Jews, but rather a settler-colonial project imposed on the Palestinians by force, with the support of Western powers. Based on this understanding, Pappe concludes that the legitimacy of the State of Israel does not exist even within its original borders, let alone those expanded after 1967. In short, the establishment of Israel is linked to a grave injustice perpetrated against the Palestinians. To rectify this injustice, Pappe calls for a peaceful, humane, and socialist alternative to the Zionist ideology: the establishment of a binational state that guarantees equal rights for all its citizens, regardless of religion or ethnicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThis book was written in the wake of the bloody events unfolding in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, attack. It concludes with a chapter that examines this event within its historical and moral context, emphasizing that it did not occur in a vacuum, but rather as a reaction to a century of Zionist settler colonialism supported by Western imperialism. According to the logic of settler colonialism, its ultimate goal is the removal of the indigenous population—an idea underscored by Noam Chomsky, who co-authored a book on Gaza with Pappe, when he described settler colonialism as “the most extreme and brutal form of imperialism.” From this perspective, the devastating Israeli attack on Gaza is not an isolated event, but rather an extension and continuation of a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing. Pappe argues that, in the case of Gaza specifically, Israel has not only committed ethnic cleansing but has gone further, perpetrating genocide, the most heinous of all crimes. As the Arabic proverb says, \"What begins crooked remains crooked.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791340261530,"sku":"9789921808766","price":49.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20250908931263299616.png?v=1763366256"},{"product_id":"9789921808988","title":"The pangs of longing and the hardships of life","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eThe pangs of longing and the hardships of life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Ali Mahmoud Khodair\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e I am your phantom. Your follower. Your disciple. I am the one followed in you. The follower of your followers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Overpowered by his own circumstances and time. Victorious in his own loss. I had no time before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e My clock did not strike, nor did an angel recite my name in the gathering place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Until you poured out your miracle upon me, and I was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e ***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eInclination is proof of weakness and need. I never inclined towards your image without ascending by its light to the sanctuary of my need. I never forgot my head upon the thought of your stone without a veil of tranquility falling. My hope falls near your tree and does not reach it. I have not touched your fruit with my hand, nor has your shade spread across my land. So come, from inclination. From an unending need to be. From an unending sufficiency to be lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791390789786,"sku":"9789921808988","price":49.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20250908946536779619.png?v=1763366524"},{"product_id":"9789921775877","title":"Lexical exercises","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eLexical exercises\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Ali Al-Majnouni\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eIf 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 on the tips of tongues, and ending with its being a cultural activity practiced between one person and another, and between the hand and the machine. In their reflections on the subject, the texts employ innovative poetic and narrative energies whose ambition is commensurate with the need for them, taking language not merely as their subject, but as a model from which they draw their tools, their artistic vision, and their stance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThe book's texts take the form of scattered lexical items or diverse plants in a linguistic and conceptual nursery that regulates the climate necessary for their growth and flourishing. They are simultaneously playful exercises and serious games. They dramatize vocabulary, expressions, and even sounds at times, then suggest windows through which these linguistic components can be viewed with sharp and fresh perspectives. Sometimes they rekindle the spark of meaning, sometimes they fabricate miniature and private linguistic myths, sometimes they bestow upon words attributes unique to humankind, sometimes they disrupt the collective consensus on forgetting, which is a condition of meaning, and sometimes they dismantle worn-out metaphors and establish new ones in their place. Thus, in their entirety, they present a clearly defined vision of language that transcends the sum of the avenues open to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eJust as a prism intercepts white sunlight and extracts colors hidden from view, these texts interfere between you and language, forever changing the way you see it and confusing your relationship with it, and consequently your relationship with yourself as a self that cannot be conceived outside of that language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791395049626,"sku":"9789921775877","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/2025090892856369615.png?v=1763366746"},{"product_id":"9789921808810","title":"Years of street fighting","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eYears of street fighting\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Tariq Ali\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThese days, I'm often asked by various people whether I have any regrets about the 1960s, and some even politely inquire whether I'd prefer to forget everything that happened and focus solely on the present. It's a question that always manages to pique my interest. Whether the questioners realize it or not, their inquiries aren't really about the past but about the future. My answer is: I have no regrets. Many mistakes were made by individuals (myself included) and groups, and there was a great deal of mysticism and idealistic fantasy during that period, but the overarching theme was a genuine belief in the need for a new world. My question is: how can one believe in anything other than that today?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e ***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Tariq Ali is a British political writer, historian, screenwriter, novelist, and activist of Pakistani origin, born in Lahore in 1943. He studied at Oxford University and became president of its student union during the 1960s. He has written many political, historical, and literary books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Tariq Ali is considered one of the most important living Trotskyist Marxist writers and activists, and despite his advanced age, he remains active through his articles and lectures, most of which focus on criticizing modern imperialism and the brutality of Western capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791406354586,"sku":"9789921808810","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/2025090892606869614.png?v=1763367365"},{"product_id":"9789921808834","title":"The West: A New History of an Old Idea","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eThe West: A New History of an Old Idea\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author: Nisha McSweeney\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThis book offers a fresh and radical reading of the idea of ​​\"the West\" as a historical and cultural construct that arose and developed over centuries of interaction, conflict, and interpretation. Nisha McSweeney begins with the premise that \"the West\" has never been a fixed entity or a unique civilizational essence, but rather a constantly shifting concept, shaped and defined by the demands of politics, power, and knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThe author traces the paths this idea has taken throughout history, from classical Greek and Roman times, through the Middle Ages and the colonial era, to contemporary discourses, showing how some voices have been glorified and others marginalized, and how selective narratives have contributed to establishing the centrality of the “West” in the historical consciousness of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThis work is characterized by analytical rigor and historical depth, and it is based on diverse sources including classical texts, imperial documents, and the works of thinkers and marginalized people alike... In doing so, it not only re-examines European history, but also proposes a broader reflection on the concepts of identity, civilization, and representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e It is a book that challenges assumptions and incites a rethinking of the grand narratives that have shaped the modern world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791409696922,"sku":"9789921808834","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/202509089558374969.png?v=1763367666"},{"product_id":"9789921808803","title":"Stone Sky - The Broken Earths Trilogy","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eStone sky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: N. K. Jemessen\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e This was no metaphor, Esson, no exaggeration. I have seen the world burn. Do not speak to me of innocent witnesses, of those who did not deserve to suffer, of the cruelty of revenge. When a commune is built upon a fault line of active tectonic activity, do you blame its walls when they inevitably collapse upon its inhabitants? No, you blame those foolish enough to think they could defy the laws of nature forever. Some worlds are built upon fault lines of active pain, their foundations nightmares. Do not grieve the collapse of such a world. The wrath they aroused was their own undoing from the start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eI will now tell you how this world, the world of Ciel Anagest, ended. I will tell you how I ended it, or at least how I destroyed enough of it so that it would have to start over and rebuild itself from scratch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e I will tell you how I opened the gate and knocked down the moon while smiling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e ***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Eason is torn between her desire to find her daughter, help her people, and save the planet. Nasson is torn between guilt for what she has done, anger towards the world that forced her into it, and love for her guardian, her new father. And Earth is already torn apart, broken, and desires nothing but to destroy all life on its surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791461142682,"sku":"9789921808803","price":82.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20250908922245879612.png?v=1763367885"},{"product_id":"9789921808759","title":"Iron Man","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eIron Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Ted Hughes\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e 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 house, at the edge of the cliff in the darkness. The wind sang in his iron fingers. His iron head was shaped like a trash can, but as big as a bedroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e ***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Ted Hughes wrote the novel Iron Man in 1968 for his two children, and it is considered one of the masterpieces of science fiction. In it, Hughes showed an interest in the environment and nature, and a focus on themes such as coexistence and overcoming the fear of the stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eHogarth, the clever boy, believed that a confrontation with Iron Man would benefit no one. Therefore, he opted for a peaceful solution, which transformed Iron Man from an enemy into a friend, and then into a hero who defended the city when it was attacked by the alien.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e If the world always listened to children, everyone would live in great prosperity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/collections\/new-products\"\u003eLatest\u003c\/a\u003e releases from \u003ca href=\"www.bookfanar.com\"\u003eBookfanar\u003c\/a\u003e website\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791519207578,"sku":"9789921808759","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/20251023102128602965.png?v=1763368494"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/collections\/download_-_2025-01-18T221352.266.jpg?v=1737271688","url":"https:\/\/bookfanar.com\/en\/collections\/takween.oembed?page=4","provider":"Book Fanar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}