From a series by Studio Ianus which collects quotes from influential people designed to enhance and also inspire the lives of readers. The colorful design and creative graphic illustrations work with the text to make a bold statement to the reader about the essence of life.
The Arabic Cookpad online community of people who love to cook is back with easy, delicious salads. Take your salad beyond iceberg lettuce and ranch dressing with these healthy salads and yummy recipes for homemade dressings. Now you can actually like eating your veggies!
This heartfelt novel tells the story of a young boy living in the mountains with his struggling family. His mother often took him to a military base at the foot of the mountains for food, picking him up later each day. But one day, she didn’t return, and as the camp relocated, they took the boy with them. The story follows his journey of survival in a harsh world, where he encounters scammers and challenges, all while searching for his mother and uncovering his true identity.
A centralized authority known as the Gate has risen to power in the aftermath of the Disgraceful Events, a failed popular uprising. Now citizens from all walks of life must stand in a line that grows larger by the day to get permission from the Gate to go about their daily business. The English translation of this novel won the English PEN Translation Award.
This parenting book guides parents on how to promote learning through play, specifically for ages 0-7, and encourages active learning, which involves creativity and problem solving.
The winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019 is available here in its original Arabic. It tells the story of Oman's evolution from a traditional society to the modern crossroads where it finds itself today. Told from the viewpoint of three sisters from one family, we meet Mayya who has married on the rebound; Asma who has married as tradition requires; and Khawla who is waiting for her one true love.
Tells the story of an eccentric bookseller in Al-Mutanabbi Street who decides to create an index detailing the minute by minute history of the war from the perspective of rocks, plants, animals and humans.
This book encourages you to do yoga for as little as 5 minutes a day, and makes it more accessible for either morning or evening purposes.
Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
This book offers refreshing and easy-to-prepare foods or meals that do not require much effort to make, including sweets and refreshments.
An essential and delightful book for perplexed parents and their curious children. Here lies weighty questions from grade school children and answers from notable scientists, philosophers, and other great minds. Answers to "Why can't I tickle myself?" and "Do animals have feelings?" and other perplexing questions are answered.
The novel explores Arab moral double standards which make the individual, women in particular, wear a false face and live as spectators of their own lives rather than autonomous players in them. The two names of the heroine of the novel (Jahida/Zayzafoune) serve to highlight these double standards. After a watershed moment in her life when she faints, at the age of sixty Zayzafoune realizes that life can be imagined in a way entirely different to how she has lived it all these years. Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
In an imagined modern-day Cairo, first class wishes are sold in bottles, and third class wishes are sold in cans. Unfortunately, the majority of the population can only afford third class wishes, which have been banned in Europe and by the government because they are highly unpredictable and often come true in damaging or ineffective ways. Aziza is a serious young woman, a hard worker whose life experience has taught her never to let her guard down; still, she allows herself to be wooed by Abdo, a boy she has grown up with who loves Aziza and life wholeheartedly. When Abdo is suddenly taken from her, Aziza, who has never believed in buying wishes before, seeks out a local kiosk which she has been told is selling first class wishes at a deep discount.
This novel tackles political corruption and the subject of imperialist influence and control over natural resources in the Arab world.
A collection of poems by the renowned and beloved Nizar Qabbani.
August 1949, the commander of a military battalion is camping with his soldiers in a part of the Negev desert, suspected of being a passage for Arab infiltrators. After more than five decades, a Palestinian female employee embarks on a journey towards the Negev, seeking to uncover the circumstances of an incident that took place in that camp.
This is a sci-fi novel about Shams, a physicist who discovers time travel to parallel worlds. He encounters alternate versions of himself and people who've left his original world. Consumed by greed, he struggles to claim what isn't his. The final chapter reveals the psychological meaning of his journey.
There was a player who suffered a heart attack in the middle of a match, a defender who was murdered for defending his honesty after having committed the sin of scoring an own goal, a striker who preferred to die rather than serve Nazi propaganda, and numerous players who refused to leave the pitch despite having broken bones. In this fascinating, funny romp through almost a century of World Cups, esteemed sportswriter Luciano Wernicke chronicles the unforgettable crashes, the magnetic personalities, and the stunning records set in the global contest for supremacy in the most popular of sports.
More than 140 recipes, this cookbook guides readers on how to improve their health through gaining healthier cooking methods and knowledge of nutritional value, all without giving up what makes food exciting.
This set includes a compilation of the late Palestinian poet's prose works and some of his articles, thoughts, and letters during his lifetime. The works are mainly themed around Darwish's adherence to his Arab Palestinian identity, and deals with issues, events, and situations related to different social, cultural and political experiences by the writer. The prose works focus on Palestinian concerns under the occupation in general, and the racism and challenges they face.