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As Islam moved from its Arabian heartland to a wider geographic area, its core message remained albeit adapted to different lands, to different ears. Poets were ever eager to provide an alternate way of delivering the ‘message’ in beautiful verse. Their simplicity was embracing, their ornateness a humble offering to greater forces. The poems here are both profound and wide-ranging.

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.

World-famous 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer. It was originally published in 1923. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.

Based on the journalist-playwright's original article in The New Yorker, Betrayed is the story of three young Iraqi translators who risk everything for America's promise of freedom while their country collapses around them.

Deserts of sand and deserts of the heart, Middle Eastern deserts and American deserts: Two Deserts, a collection of stories, follows the circles of two unforgettable women across cultures and deserts. The Arabian circle includes a 17-year-old girl yearning for freedom and a Muslim mother plotting to rescue her son from a jihadist movement. The American circle includes a hooker who is training her daughter for the life, a priest in love, and a club of women whose husbands are dying.

After living in the city of Orphalese for 12 years, a prophet is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a seeress and the people of the city, who ask him for his insights into life. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, 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.

Cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent 20th-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated portraits that combine the personal and the political, the book includes philosophers, historians, journalists, and activists such as Hannah Arendt, Arthur Koestler, I. F. Stone, and Noam Chomsky.

The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate focus. Time is a thread come unspooled: Pain arrives before the wound, and the dead wait for sunrise.

Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she translates Rumi's works for herself - to gain wisdom and insight in the face of a creative and spiritual roadblock. With the help of her father, who is a lifelong fan of Rumi's poetry, she immerses herself in this rich body of work, and discovers a 13th-century prescription for modern life.

Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one's way through a confusing tangle of conflicting cultures and expectations. And Porochista is pulled between the glitzy culture of Tehrangeles, an enclave of wealthy Iranians and Persians in LA, her own family's modest life and culture, and becoming an assimilated American.

These poems are English interpretations of poems originally written in Urdu and Punjabi. Interpretations are not translations. The interpretations capture the essence of the poem rather than the form and specifics of the original language.

"El loco” es un libro corto escrito por Khalil Gibran, publicado en 1918. Esta obra la narra un solo personaje el cual se hace llamar loco. Se van contando las vivencias del hombre “loco”, en cortas ficciones, que si bien, no tienen sentido a simple vista, es necesario profundizar para lograr comprender los mensajes. Es un libro lleno de anécdotas, enseñanzas, y reflexiones de tipo espiritual, escrito con breves y sencillas palabras, haciéndolo comprensible para cualquier descifrador. Cada historia se identifica por su título y tiene algo peculiar: son poemas escritos desde el ámbito espiritual, a modo de reflexión personal.

Mohamed Ibrahim recites his collection of poems in which he discusses what is on the minds of young people at the present time, such as the problems they face with society, and the thoughts they hide.

هو في الأصل عبارة عن مجموعة من المقالات نشرت في مجلة العصور بين شهري يوليو (تموز) 1929م، ويناير (كانون الثاني) 1930. جُمعت هذه المقالات في هذا الكتاب لتلقي الضوء على أسلوب من أساليب النقد الأدبي. تناول هذا الكتاب الكاتب العربي المصري "عباس محمود العقاد" على يد كاتب وشاعر وناقد مصري مشهود له هو مصطفى صادق الرافعي. في هذه المقالات التي تمّ جمعها مُثلٌ وعينات تؤول بك إلى حقيقة هذه الأديب من كل نواحيه، وفيها الكثير الكافي.

وباسمكَ يجري بريدُ العزاء.. وتجري المراثي على كل فمْ..

يقول إحسان عبد القدوس في بداية هذا الكتاب:-

"ملك القطن" هي لوحة حية صادقة تمثل حالة فعلية كانت سائدة بين الملَّاك الجشعين والفلاحين المغبونين الذين يجاهدون جهادًا مريرًا لكي يستخلصوا ثمرة جهدهم من بين براثن هؤلاء المُلَّاك.

"الأيدي الناعمة".. مسرحية اجتماعية فلسفية كوميدية مهمة كتبها توفيق الحكيم عقب ثورة 1952 بعد فترة انقطاع طويلة عن التأليف المسرحي ليعيد فيها صياغة أفكاره إزاء التطورات الجديدة.

زئيرٌ في جزيرة العرب، ديوان شعري كتبه معالي الدكتور عبد الله بلحيف النعيمي وتم التوقيع على هذا الإصدار في أول أيام معرض أبوظبي الدولي للكتاب في نسخته الأخيرة، وجمع قصائده فصيحة ونبطية تؤرّخ أهم الأحداث والمناسبات الوطنية والقومية والإنسانية بلغة سلسة بسيطة وعميقة في الوقت نفسه.ويدور في محاور عدة من أهمها المحور الوطني، حيث يتغنى الشاعر بوطنه، وطن الخير الإمارات، حيث يرفرف علمه شامخاً تحت سمائها.

يختبيء "أحمد" لدى رفيقٍ له في مكانٍ مهجور بسبب ملاحقته من قبل العسكر لكنَّ وضعه يُصبح سيئًا عندما يتعرَّض لعضّة كلب فيناقش رفاق الحزب احتمالات مرضه وعلاجه واعتقاله لكنّهم يقررون في النهاية إقامة الحجر الصحي عليه لمدّة أربعين يومًا للتأكّد من عدم إصابته بداء الكلَب، لذلك يبقى أحمد حبيس غرفته طول تلك الفترة فيلجأ إلى رسم خطٍّ على الباب في كلِّ يومٍ ينقضي مسترجعًا ذكرياته الحلوة والمرة ما بين الحياة والملاحقة، عن الجيش العثماني والدولة في نهايتها، عن ذكريات الطلبة الذين جاءوا من مختلف دول العالم وعن حبّه الأول مع أنوشكا الفاتنة.