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The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley
By: Mohamed Shoair

Translation by Humphrey Davies. An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz’s novel Children of the Alley ha...

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Our Vision for Liberation : Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out
By: Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud and Ilan Pappe (editors) Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out aims to challenge several strata of the current Palestine discourse that have led to the present...

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Silence and Silences by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
By: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

A meditation on the infinite search for meanings in silence, from Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, the author of The Other Side of the Tiber and Mother Tongue. We need quiet to feel nothing, to hear silence that brings back prop...

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Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
By: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

A probing and poetic examination of language, food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life through the eyes of an American who moved to Parma with her husband and family. In the 1980s, the American writer Wallis...

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The Distance by Azza Elwakeel
By: Azza Elwakeel

At the age of eleven, Azza El Wakeel wrote in her diary that she wished to become a poetess because poets are capable of expressing their deep feelings and thoughts in a wonderful style. Several years later she discovere...

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Cairo Circles
By: Doma Mahmoud

One of BuzzFeed's New Books You'll Love "Cairo Circles is a novel that proves literature needn't choose between pleasure and substance. You will tear through the pages of this delicious book, and you wi...

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Romeo & Julia in Corona
By: Sylvia Petter

A bilingual English/German novelette in flash “Szenen einer jungen Liebe erzählt mit hoffnungsvollem und lebensklugem Blick auf die menschlichen Kräfte. Besonders geeignet zur Ermutigung junger Mensche...

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert Sapolsky

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring… You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No H...

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The Scorpion's Whisper
By: Mohamed Tawfik

The novel is a fictionalized account of a historical expedition to the mysterious oasis of Kufra. Rose, an Englishwoman, who has lost her loved ones in the First World War, and Hussein, an Egyptian who needs to reconcile...

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Triple Decker
By: D-L Nelson

Every family is made up of multiple separate lives, intertwined. And though they experience the same event, and the impact shared, each of their reactions is deeply personal. The Flanagans are a normal, three-generation...

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