Readers Club Selections: 2021
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
By: Youssef Halak
The Master and Margarita, Russian Master i Margarita, novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1928–40 and published in a censored form in the Soviet Union in 1966–67. The unexpurgated version was published there in 1973. Witty and ribald, the novel is at...
Writing Toward Wholeness: Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung
By: Susan Tiberghien
Writing Toward Wholeness encourages readers to embark on their own journey through writing toward selfhood, toward wholeness. At every step, it reinforces the lessons C.G. Jung learned and shared with millions of people. In focusing on insights and excerpts from Jung’s writ...
Rain over Baghdad: An Egyptian Novel Kindle Edition
By: Hala El-Badry
What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century? The mid-seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein’s rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq–Iran war. It also brought...
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 Boston Irish Catholic family living in a triple decker on Mi...
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
By: Abdulkader Abdelli
Nobel Prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow was first published in Turkish in 2002 (under the Turkish title Kars) and in English in 2004. Snow’s narrator, a novelist named Orhan, attempts to reconstruct a crucial episode from the life of his late frien...
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 his Islamic upbringing with his Western inclinations, embar...
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 Harm We are capable of savage acts of violence but also sp...
أوراق برلين
By: Nihad Sirees
"متنقّلاً بين أسواق حلب الأثريّة وبين بارات برلين، يُعيد بطل رواية (أوراق برلين) اكتشاف نفسه مرّةً بعد مرّةٍ، ويفتح يديه لتجاربَ متنوّعةٍ، وأناسٍ جُدد، ويصيخ السمع منتظراً أن يقصّ عليه أحدهم حكايةً جديدةً كي يدوّنها، ونراه يهرب من قصّة حبٍ مخفقةٍ عبْر استكشاف تاريخ ألمانيا ف...
Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books
By: Karen Leggett Abouraya
For a moment in time, they were one. Young and old, Muslim and Christian - Egyptians held hands around their cherished library in Alexandria, protecting it. It was January 2011. Together, protestors protected the great library of Alexandria, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. ...
Ibrahim Nagui a Belated Intimate Visit
By: Samia Mehrez
In this book Samia Mehrez, Professor of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, re-visits and re-reads the work of her grandfather, poet and medical doctor, Ibrahim Nagui (1898-1953), one of the Arab World’s most renowned and popular romantic...
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