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A Certain Woman
By: Hala El-Badry

The Arabic original of this novel published by Dar Hilal in 2001 was our book of the month for March 2003.


Yacoubian Building
By: Alaa El-Aswani

English version AUC press 2004 The original Arabic novel published by Merit 2002 was our book of the month selection in January 2003. This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruptio...


The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
By: Emile Habibi

First published by Dar al-Hilal in Arabic. The story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggres...


Agamyste
By: Mohamed Tawfik

A collection of short stories - Cairo- Dar el-Fikr el-Arabi 1997 136 pages Three of the stories are part of the English collection The Day the Moon Fell published 1996


The Day the Moon Fell
By: Mohamed Tawfik

Translated by A. Amin Cairo- Dar el-Fikr el-Arabi 1997 collection of short stories 176 pages Both Arabic and English versions of the short story "The Day the Moon Fell" were studied in 1989 by Students of Compa...


Leaves of Narcissus (Awrak al-Narjis)
By: Somaya Ramadan

Winner of Naguib Mahfouz Medal for literature 2001. Arabic Edition Dar Sharkiyat 2001 English Edition AUC Press 2007 Translated by Marilyn Booth The novel stages the (narcissistic) mirror in which a politically and socia...


I saw Ramallah
By: Mourid Barghouti

I saw Ramallah in English Translated from Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif and Edward W. Said Hardcover - February 2001 Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. I saw Ramallah in Arabic was published in 1987 by Dar Hilal...


شطح المدينة
By: Gamal Elghitani

هذه الرواية تعد نموذج للفانتازيا الراقية تمتزج بها القضايا العملية الواقعية بالبعد الأسطوري والرمزي من خلال صراع في عوالم مدينة يقودها مجموعة من البشر غير المرئيين في إحدى المراكز العلمية (جامعة) الذين يسيِّرون الجماد وا...


وردة
By: Sonallah Ibrahim

بانوراما مثيرة ورحلة عاصفة دموية أحياناً كثيرة، امتدت من القاهرة إلى بيروت ومسقط وصنعاء وصلالة وعدن وصحراء الربع الخالي، شارك فيها ملوك وثوار وسلاطين وشيوخ قبائل وعبيد، قوميون وبعثيون وشيوعيون وناصريون، عبر ثلاثة عقود من...