Arabic Literature

ألف ليلة وليلة ..ذات الحوادث العجيبة، والقصص المطربة الغريبة، لياليها غرام في غرام وتفاصيل حب وعشق وهيام، وحكايات ونوادر فكاهية، ولطائف وطرائف أدبية بالصور المدهشة البديعة، من أبدع ما كان ومناظر أعجوبة من عجائب الزمان.

Short Stories in Arabic for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening.

In this moving fictional treatment of a Muslim woman's life, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Cast out and divorced by her husband, she finds herself in a strange new world. Both obstacles and support systems change as she actively participates in the struggle for Moroccan independence from France.

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Enjoy this voice-only audio recording of the New Arabic Version, read by two different readers. The New Arabic Version offers a faithful rendering of Scripture’s original word order while also delivering the most comprehensive and clear translation of the Bible’s stories and concepts...

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.

Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and start a family in Sinjar. The village has seemed to stand apart from time, protected by the mountains and too small to attract much political notice. But their happy existence is suddenly shattered when Elias, a journalist, goes missing.

"إنّها لعنة أن تولد فقيرًا في بلد فاسد ضعيف"...هذا ما آلت إليه حال شعب زيكولا اليوم فبعد أن هربت الطبيبة أسيل إلى بلدها "بيجانا" في الجزء الأول إثر إعلانها خائنةً حسب...

“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle."" —Entertainment Weekly A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. Chava is a golem, a...

""A bewitching political novel of contemporary Cairo that is also an engagé novel about sex, a romantic novel about power and a comic yet sympathetic novel about the vagaries of the human heart. Even the least politically oriented reader will find it engrossing."" — New York Times Book Review...

"Wecker is a marvelous storyteller.”—USA Today “An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle.”— Entertainment Weekly The long-awaited final installment in the award-winning, bestselling Golem and the Jinni trilogy. At the...

Dear listener, I bare you my heart like an olive tree bares its fruit in the Levant sun. Written in both North Levantine Arabic and English, this is a poetry book on love as I have experienced it. I wrote it with a vision, an image of myself being back on the olive field where my late grandfather used to harvest ripe olives whilst I sat between the rocks and the olive trees.

In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I— the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golem and the Jinni—Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront...

رواية بوليسية مثيرة تدور أحداثها على متن القطار الأزرق؛ يحاول فيها المحقق الكبير بوارو" أن يصل إلى قاتل السيدة "روث". إن "روث" لم تقتل وحسب، ولكن شوهت ملامح وجهها؛ حتى كاد الناس لا يعرفونها؛ وفضلاً عن ذلك فقد سرقت أيضًا مجوهراتها الثمينة. فيا ترى من فعل تلك الجريمة: قتل وتشويه وسرقة؟ ومن تجتمع فيه هذه الأهداف الثلاثة ممن يعرف "روث"؟

Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza. In early 2024, writer and activist susan abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at the...

ثم يستحيل كل هذا جحيمًا وتصرخ النساء ، وسرعان ما يظهر الجنود .. الجنود شقر الشعور زرق العيون الذين يلبسون السراويل القصيرة .. الزى الرسمى للإنجليز فى مستعمراتهم الحارة ، ويصرخ أحد الضباط آمرًا الجند بفتح النار ، وتنهمر الطلقات .. إنه لمشهد لا يصدق .. و( عبير ) لم تعتد قط أن ترى الرصاص يُطلق على مظاهرة بهـذا الشكل الفج .. أيـن الغازات والعصى المكهربة والطلقات المطاطيـة ؟ الضحايا يتسـاقطون بالعشرات وتتبعثر الصفوف : كأنما هى مياه جدول ألقى فيها طفل شقى بحجارته ..

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...

في هذه الرواية يدور الصراع في ثلاث دقائق أخرى.. الدقائق الثلاث الأخيرة من دائرة الزمن.

Published in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Princess Fatima recounts the thrilling adventures of a legendary medieval warrior universally known throughout the Middle East and long overdue to join world literature's pantheon of female heroes. A...