Readers Club Selections: 2023
بالصدفة وبالمواعيد
By: Hossam Fahr
"القصص لا تحدث إلا لمن يعرف كيف يحكيها". هكذا، يحكي فخر عبر أكثر من ثلاثين قصة قصص عن المهمشين والخارجين عن مركزية المجتمع، بائعي التين الشوكي وميكانيكي الطرق السريعة والدادات وحتى الأطفال في كنف آبائهم وهم يعانون من الاغتراب والعنف الأسري، والمرضى المتسلحون بالقديس مار...
Samuel Beckett's First Love and Company
By: Fawzia Al-Ashmawi
We have selected this volume comprising of the two texts that have been translated into Arabic from the French by Fawzia Alashmawi First Love is a short story by Samuel Beckett, written in 1946 and first published in its original French version in 1970 and, in Beckett's En...
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain
By: Thomas Armstrong
From ADHD and dyslexia to autism, the number of diagnosis categories listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the last fifty years. With so many people affected, it is time to revisit our perceptions of people with disabilities. Bestselling author, psychol...
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
By: Ghobrial Wahba
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952 and awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was his last major work of fiction. The story centers on an aging fisherman who engages in an epic battle to catch a giant marlin. Hemingway recasts...
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots: An Australian Diplomat in the Arab World
By: Bob Bowker
After 50 years as an Australian diplomat, UN official, intelligence analyst, academic and company director working in and on the Middle East, Bob Bowker enjoys unique insights into the challenges, professional and personal, of representing Australia in the Arab world. In this occ...
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
By: Angele Botros Samaan
Things Fall Apart, first published in 1958, is a classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Chinua Achebe is considered the founding father of the modern African novel. His iconic novel has sold...
Kleine Festungen - Small Fortresses
By: Hartmut Faehndrich
This is a collection of stories about Arab children and young people, compiled and translated from Arabic by Hartmut Fähndrich. With contributions by 50 authors from 12 Arab countries, it provides a special insight into the Arab world. A child can be born in a fine Beirut...
Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
By: Kamel Youssef Hussein
In Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in America prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story o...
An Egyptian Woman by Fawzia Assaad
By: Fawzia Assaad
This novel was written and originally published in French in 1975. The Arabic version, translated by Ahmed Osman, was published in 1997. It also appeared in English in 2004, titled Layla an Egyptian Woman. The novel depicts the effects of the 1952 revolution and the Arab-Israe...
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