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The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East," in a masterly new translation The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his...

The prolific writings of Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, continue to inspire a devoted international following and have transformed modern Arabic literature. In this volume of early writings, Gibran’s simple yet lyrical style crosses from prose to poetry and yields insight into his dedication and inner vision of beauty, including the tale of a strange hermit in “The Tempest”, the discovery of love lost to war in “The Mermaids”, and the long voyage of sea and soul in the prose poem “Between Night and Morn”.

Kahlil Gibran was Lebanese by birth but spent a major part of his life in America in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise or whimsical tone, but none more popular than The Prophet, his first collection, or The Wanderer, his final anthology.

Growing up together in the Surra section of central Kuwait, Katkout, Fahd, and Sadiq share neither ethnic origin nor religious denomination - only friendship and a rage against the unconscionable sectarian divide turning their lives into war-zone rubble. To lay bare the ugly truths, they form the protest group Fuada’s Kids. Their righteous transgressions have made them targets of both Sunni and Shi’a extremists. They’ve also elicited the concern of Fahd’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, who cautions them that should they anger God, the sky will surely fall.

El fascinante viaje de Oriente a México de una mujer que lo dejó todo para encontrar su lugar en el mundo Ventura, una hermosa joven turca, debe viajar a México para casarse con Lázaro según la decisión de su familia. Con apenas un baúl de pertenencias y la ilusión de un futuro...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an acclaimed Palestinian poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha...

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. "Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes...

From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment. Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up...

كنز أدبي يضم مجموعة من رسائل الأديب البغدادي الشهير الجاحظ، تتميز كل رسالة بتناول موضوع واحد بعمق واستفاضة، وتغطي جوانب متنوعة من التاريخ، الأدب، السياسة، الاجتماع، والدين، مع أسلوب الجاحظ الساحر المليء بالطرافة والبراهين الفكرية، وتتضمن دراسات نادرة لمواضيع مثل القيان، البخلاء، والأئمة، مما يجعله مصدراً فريداً لفهم عصره وعقل الجاحظ الاستثنائي.

كتاب أدبي يجمع قصصاً وحكايات عن كرم وسخاء الأجواد والمحسنين، يبرز فيه مآثرهم الطيبة ومكارم أخلاقهم، ويُعتبر مرجعاً في باب الجود والكرم في الأدب العربي، ويُلحق به غالباً كتاب "فضل العطاء على العسر" و"الدرر المنضود".

كتاب "البدائع والطرائف" هو مجموعة أدبية وفلسفية للكاتب والشاعر اللبناني جبران خليل جبران، نُشر لأول مرة في مصر عام 1923. يمزج الكتاب بين المقالات، الخواطر، والقصائد، مقدماً رؤية صوفية وفلسفية تدعو إلى تحرير النفس البشرية من القيود والرياء، وتأمل الجمال في جوهر الأشياء لا في قشورها.

كتاب "قرية ظالمة" للكاتب والمفكر الدكتور محمد كامل حسين، الصادر عام 1954، هو تحفة في الأدب الفلسفي. تُعد من أعمق الأعمال التي تناولت الأيام الأخيرة للسيد المسيح، وفازت بجائزة الدولة التشجيعية في الأدب عام 1957

تدور أحداث كتاب مغامرة رأس المملوك جابر في إطار تاريخي رمزي، حيث يُكلَّف المملوك جابر بمهمة خطيرة تكشف طبيعة السلطة والصراع على النفوذ.

تدور أحداث كتاب رحلة حنظلة حول شخصية حنظلة التي تنطلق في رحلة بحث عن الحقيقة والكرامة وسط واقع يملؤه القهر والظلم.

تتناول رواية الأيام المخمورة حياة مجموعة من الشخصيات التي تعيش في ظل واقع مضطرب، حيث تتشابك الأحلام بالإحباطات والصراعات الاجتماعية والسياسية.

تدور أحداث كتاب طقوس الإشارات والتحولات في دمشق أواخر العهد العثماني، حيث تكشف شبكة من الصراعات بين السلطة والدين والرغبات الإنسانية.

A book that is number one on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks may be forgotten a decade later. Popularity in a moment of history does not guarantee that a book will endure beyond its own time. The Prophet however, has proven time and again to quietly find its way into the...

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, activist, and visual artist. Deeply thoughtful and spiritual, Gibran was also considered a philosopher although he rejected the title. Gibran is celebrated as a literary hero in Lebanon. He is widely considered the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the twentieth century. Contents: Sand and Foam, The Prophet, The Madman, His Parables And Poems.

Ehli-nikkalu, eldest daughter of the Hittite emperor, is married to a mere vassal of her father's. But despite her status, her foreignness and inability to produce an heir drive a wedge between her and the court that surrounds her. When her secretary is mysteriously murdered while carrying the emperor a message that would indict the loyalty of his vassal, Ehli-nikkalu adopts the dead man's orphaned children out of a guilty sense of responsibility.

Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual traditions. His poetry is known for its lyrical and expressive language, as well as its exploration of themes such as love, loss, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. "Sukun" means serenity or calm, and a sukun is also a form of punctuation in Arabic orthography that denotes a pause over a consonant.