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Amin Maalouf
"In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend…
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Mohamed Bouchelta
The East and the West have often been linked through a discourse parasitized by prejudice, hostility and even hatred. A booklet entitled "L'Amour de loin" (Love from afar), written by…
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Maria Jose Dias
Concerned by the segregationist essentialisms that tear communities apart, Amin Maalouf is committed to using literature as a mediator between cultures, and to offering himself as a border-crosser, taking into…
Sifts through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. This book retells their stories in their own style…
Breathtaking analysis of the current global crisis from one of the Arab world’s most respected writers
In the Koran, there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of the apocalyptic year of the beast , 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese…
Tranlsated from the French by George Miller A dazzling and ultimately hopeful exploration and analysis of our disordered and volatile post-9/11 world by one of the leading international writers and…
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L'auteur avance la these suivante: le dereglement du monde tient moins a la guerre des civilisations qu'a l'epuisement simultane des civilisations, l'humanite ayant atteint son seuil d'incompetence morale: l'Occident infidele…
Origins, by the world-renowned writer Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning, inter-generational saga. This work is at once a gripping family chronicle and a timely consideration of Lebanese culture and politics.
A lucid enquiry into the precise meaning of identity - that which makes each of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual. In this series of reflections, the author…
Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. When a French entomologist obtains…
This novel is based on the life story of the geographer Hasan as- Wazzan, who came to be known as Leo the African. It describes, amongst other things, how he…
Winner of the Prix de Maisons de la Presse, this novel tells the history of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyaat from its creation by the poet in the 11th-century to its loss…
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The 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt. It is an historical novel which explores myth, passion and loyalty from Lebanon’s troubled past, by tracing the life of Tanios, a child…
An imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. He wrote the first trilingual dictionary and Description of Africa.
Retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, presents an intriguing chronicle of the Crusades, and offers insights into the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
A story of love across an inseparable gulf and a powerful allegory for the conflict that has beset the Middle East for the last half century.
A big, exquisite novel about friendship, betrayal, nostalgia, culture, politics, and beliefs.
Mani is born into a time of war - 3rd-century Mesopotamia. Despite being the son of a warrior, he becomes a painter, physician, mystic and prophet, preaching in the battlefields…
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The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind.
After 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.
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The story of Samarkand is woven around the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, from its creation by the poet and sage in eleventh-century Persia to…
An award-winning author explores why so many people commit crimes in the name of identity. Makes for compelling reading in America today. – The New York Times.
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guia de lectura Las escalas de Levante, una novela del exitoso escritor francolibanes Amin Maalouf. En el contexto de la guerra civil del Libano…
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