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Text in Arabic. Afghanistan in the 1970s: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-flying tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. What happens to Hassan that afternoon will shatter their lives. After the Russian...

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Text in Arabic. August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream schooluntil now. Hes about to enter fifth grade at Beecher Prep, and if youve ever been the new kid, then you know how hard that...

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For fans of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore. A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country's growing hostility towards the West. A middle-aged man dying from c...

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Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East. Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking...

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Text in Arabic. This series teaches important skills for school readiness and daily life, from social and emotional skills to health and safety and cognitive skills. Each book includes A Closer Look: two pages of activities and questions for furth...

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Text in Arabic. This series teaches important skills for school readiness and daily life, from social and emotional skills to health and safety and cognitive skills. Each book includes A Closer Look: two pages of activities and questions for furth...

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Text in Arabic. This series teaches important skills for school readiness and daily life, from social and emotional skills to health and safety and cognitive skills. Each book includes A Closer Look: two pages of activities and questions for furth...

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Text in Arabic. In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf. In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist. Portugal, 1486: Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages, and new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is st...

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Josephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid. She meets Rashid, and with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of the Gulf War growing louder, R...

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Text in Arabic. A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles - in an uncanny and terrifying way - a real person he has never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely d...

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Text in Arabic. Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sist...

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Text in Arabic. Alwaleed is a struggling Jordanian youth, searching for meaning and soon seduced by the Recruiters promises, fighting the Syrian regime. But is this how he can fight the materialistic excess he despises? There is only one person in...

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Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos, displaced by violence, and driven by forces beyond his control to find his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold on to: a love that propels him forward and gives him hope. Nadia is matur...

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Medhat is an orphaned boy who grows up shuttling between various farming families in the beautiful province of Sharkia, east of the Nile Delta. What was intended to be a brief visit for the five-year-old to Ismailia, a beautiful and cosmopolitan c...

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Text in Arabic. A group of disparate individuals, two of whom are Palestinian adolescents who have lost their legs in Israeli bomb strikes, is preparing to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. They have nothing and everything in common. Hailing from Palestin...

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Azzan introduces us to his grandmother, who he loves very much. He loves visiting her, listening to her tell him stories, and her big hugs. But one day, Azzan has to say goodbye to his grandmother will he be able to understand where she has gone a...

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Ghosoun and her brother, Salem, live with their parents in peace and harmony, along with their loyal dog, Salfa. But with the sudden death of their mother, the childrens father marries another woman who quickly conspires with an evil crow to be ri...

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Text in Arabic. Take a walk down the street in a town, any town. But this time, really look at the little faces that are cleaning the cars, selling food, and cleaning shoes on the pavements. Listen to their dreams as they look up to the sky and se...

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Text in Arabic. Reem is a thoughtful young girl who delights in her life with her parents and delights them with her presence. But life has many surprises in store for her and before she knows it she has lost her parents and is left at the mercy o...

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With a career in international politics and diplomacy that spans decades, Dr Hamad Al-Kawari offers his unique perspective to the complex social and political issues facing Qatar and the Arab world. A mixture of personal stories, professional biog...

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Text in Arabic. 1947: Beit Daras, a rural Palestinian village, is home to the Baraka family oldest daughter Nazmiyeh, brother Mamdouh, dreamy Mariam and their widowed mother. When Israeli forces descend, sending the village up in flames, the famil...

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Text in Arabic. Nigeria in the 1990s: Four brothers from a quiet middle-class family the oldest 15, and the youngest nine take advantage of their fathers extended absence to skip school and go fishing at a forbidden river. There, they encounter Ab...

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Text in Arabic. Families can be overwhelming, and for Majid, one of four kids, its a positive nightmare! His sister always bosses him around, while his other sister plays with his toys without asking. Even his older brother takes pleasure in teasi...

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Text in Arabic. Ghosoun and her brother, Salem, live with their parents in peace and harmony, along with their loyal dog, Salfa. But with the sudden death of their mother, the childrens father marries another woman who quickly conspires with an ev...

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Text in Arabic. Latifa the giraffe wishes she were more like her friend -- the monkey. But instead of swinging from tree to tree, she wants to swing from the moon! Latifa and her friends in the animal kingdom work together to figure out a way for ...

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When one of Kuwaits richest businessmen unexpectedly contacts author Taleb Al-Rifai, he has an unusual request: write a biographical novel that traces his ascent from poverty into the upper reaches of Kuwaiti society. As fact mixes with fiction, A...

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Text in Arabic. What is the impact of digital journalism on daily newspapers in Qatar? This book examines the current status of journalism in Qatar and the expected positive impact once it becomes fully digital, both on the economic level and on t...

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Text in Arabic. In his collection of stories, Atef Abuseif tells the story of Darwish, a refugee in Gaza, born after the 1948 Palestinian nakba. Tragic circumstances make him a widower and guardian to three children: a young son in elementary scho...

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Text in Arabic. With a career in international politics and diplomacy that spans decades, Dr. Hamad Al-Kawari offers his unique perspective to the complex social and political issues facing Qatar and the Arab world. A mixture of personal stories, ...

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Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos, displaced by violence, and driven by forces beyond his control to find his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold on to: a love that propels him forward and gives him hope. Nadia is matur...

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