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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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


Secret of the Temple
By: Tharwat Alkharbawy

by Tharwat Elkerbawy the highest ranking leader to ever defect from the Muslim Brotherhood and most authoritative historian on the group.


دروز بلجراد
By: Rabee Jaber

The Arabic edition of this book was our book of the month in February 2013. After the 1860 Civil War in Mount Lebanon, a number of fighters from the religious Druze community are forced into exile, travelling by sea to t...


Revolution Is My Name
By: Mona Prince

A writer, a university professor, a woman: this is the insightful and humorous description of one hesitant revolutionary's experiences through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that led to the fall of Presid...


candygirl
By: Mohamed Tawfik

The Cerebellum, an Egyptian scientist with a past association with the Iraqi nuclear program, tries to evade intelligence agencies that are trying to assassinate him. He rents a room on the roof of a brothel in a Cairo s...