Readers Club Selections: 2020
The Ottoman Occupation of Egypt and the Fall of the Mamluks
By: Emad Abou-Ghazi
historian Emad Abu Ghazi examines the Ottoman occupation, in a bid to settle the debate between the labels 'occupation' and 'conquest'
The Plague
By: Albert Camus
Translated into Arabic by Sohail Idris Our discussion on Albert Camus’s masterpiece novel, "The Plague" via Zoom took place on Saturday June 20, 2020. You may view the full discussion Here The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published i...
Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
By: Saleh Almani
(Spanish: El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is a novel by Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez. The novel was first published in Spanish in 1985. Translated into Arabic by Saleh Almani Our discussion on Gabriel Garcia Marquez&rsq...
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
By: Hussain Al-Mozany
The full video of our discussion on " The Tin Drum " which took place on Saturday October 24 , 2020 , may be viewed here: The Tin Drum Webinar The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel )is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's Da...
All the Beautiful Liars
By: Sylvia Petter
The fictional memoir of Katrina Klain ‍3rd place: Yeovil Prize 2016 How true are the family histories that tell us who we are and where we come from? Who knows how much all the beautiful liars have embargoed or embellished the truth? During a long flight from Europe...
Sabeel Al Gharek
By: Reem Bassiouney
Award-winning novelist and AUC Professor of Applied Linguistics Reem Bassiouney’s new book, Sabeel Al Gharek is achieving substantial success with the first edition selling out in only five days and the second edition released shortly after. Bassiouney attributes the book&...
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