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Offshoots VI
By: Mohamed Tawfik

A biennial review of prose and poetry published by the Geneva Writers Group. It features works - in English - by 37 writers from 16 countries including stories by two of our member authors Mohamed Tawfik and Jacqueline C...

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Quest of Reality
By: D R Khashaba

 The author describes his work as a personal statement, giving his personal account of wrestling with the questions that have puzzled all thinking humans from the beginning. This personal account is not offered for...

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Plato’s Memoirs
By: D R Khashaba

In line with his fictional Socrates’ Prison Journal (2006), the author makes Plato put off the revision of his last work, the Laws, to write his memoirs, reflections on his life and works. The idea is audacious but...

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Hypatia's Lover
By: D R Khashaba

This is a fictionalized account of the last days of Hypatia’s life, leading to her brutal murder during Lent, 415 AD. The fictional love story is treated allusively, in very light touches, mostly through fleeting r...

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Plato: An Interpretation
By: D R Khashaba

 Softcover. 320 Pages. Our understanding of Plato and our understanding of the nature of philosophy are two sides of a coin. The dominant academic conception of the nature of philosophical thinking vitiates both...

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Let Us Philosophize
By: D R Khashaba

This is a revised edition of a book that first appeared in 1998. The author has since published three other books, yet “Let Us Philosophize” remained the one that gives the author’s philosophy as an int...

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الحب على الطريقة العربية
By: Reem Bassiouney

الطبعة الثانية 2016 "لا تدري كيف ولا لماذا بدأت تقبل رقبته قبلات متناثرة، فأمسك برأسها وقبلها في لهفة... بالأمس لقنها درسًا لن تنساه. كانت كشعب يحكمه طاغية ساحر ومحبوب يعذب الشعب، وينفي الشعب، ويسيل دم الشعب، ويه...

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Bamboo Stalk
By: Saud Alsanousi

Saud Alsanousi and Jonathan Wright (translator) Bloomusbury September 2015 Arabic version by Arab Scientific Publishers 2012 The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the lives of foreign workers in Arab countries an...

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Azazeel
By: Youssef Ziedan

The Arabic edition of this book was our book of the month in January 2015. The English edition is translated by Jonathan Wright in 2013. Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk...

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ثلاثية شيكاغو
By: Mahmoud Saeed

a three volume book by Iraqi Novelist Mahmoud Saeed Published in Arabic by Dar Afaq 2008. The book was featured as book of the month in August 2014 His books in English include: Saddam City, Ben Barka Lane and A Portal i...

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