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      • Dar al Saqi

        Saqi was founded in 1979 in London as the first Arabic bookshop in the United Kingdom; Dar Al Saqi was established in Beirut in 1990.Dar Al Saqi is well known for the high quality of its publications, in terms of content and in terms of print quality and output. Saqi is always present in all Arab and foreign exhibitions as well as cultural events; its distribution network covers all Arab countries and the main cities of the world.Saqi’s books cover the following subjects: politics, history, biography, science, culture, literature, arts, novels, stories, poetry, reference books and children books.Dar Al Saqi has published well-known authors, as well as first books by young authors; some of these have become famous authors while continuing to publish their works with Dar Al Saqi.Dar Al Saqi respects its authors, and has never forgotten that the book belongs first to the author. Dar Al Saqi has always contributed to the renaissance Arabic cultures. It strives to build bridges between Arabic and other cultures, and to encourage dialogue and discussion between different cultures and peoples. It is worth mentioning that our authors come from many Arab countries and from many other parts of the world as well.Dar Al Saqi has, since its foundation, followed the policy of translating books from Arabic into English, and translating important works from various languages to Arabic, for the benefit of the Arab reader.Dar Al-Saqi won numerous international awards, recognizing its contribution to Arab culture and to international dialogue between cultures.

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      • Dar al Saqi

        Dar al Saqi is an award-winning independent publishing house based in Beirut. Founded in 1990, their books cover various subjects including children's and young adults’ for ages between 3 and 18.

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        I Have Two Homes Instead of One
        Children's & YA
        August 2017

        I Have Two Homes Instead of One

        by Lorka SbeityIllustrated By: Mona Yakzan

        “I am happy now, I have two homes instead of one. I visit my father in the village during the weekend. My mom reads me bedtime stories And I will not see her sad anymore.” The story targets a big part of any community nowadays; it deals with divorce from the children’s perspective. It shows the separation’s psychological damages on the child if not well approached. It facilitates the smooth and healthy acceptance of divorce for both parents and children.

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        Red Line
        Children's & YA
        February 2014

        Red Line

        by Samar Mahfouz BarrajIllustrated By: Mona Yakzan and Mira El-Myr

        Mazen, a young boy, is one day surprised by their neighbor Bassam shouting with anger in the street “My parking spot is a red line!” Does this mean he plans to paint the street red, asks Mazen to his mother? The mother explains to Mazen that what Bassam means is simply that no one is to park in his place. The notion is still vague to Mazen: Why red? Does it have anything to do with red traffic lights? The mother tries again “When something is a red line, it means that it is off limits to others”. In this illustrated album, Samar Barraj boldly addresses the delicate issue of child sexual abuse. Acknowledging the complexity of the boundary it tackles, the book determines it through examples the mother and child raise in their conversation. Mazen’s spontaneous remarks and comments point out the difficulty of defining this red line, and make of the book a realistic example of such a conversation. The illustrations develop the notion further, by representing situations in which the red line might be crossed – one may be on his bicycle, at his computer, or approached by a respectable-looking old man in the street. The body parts are not named, but are represented in a naïve drawing Mazen made, though the text insists on the importance of preserving the body as a whole. The colorful images and constant presence of the mother and parents make of the book a reassuring experience despite the gravity of the topic.

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        I Am Special
        Children's & YA

        I Am Special

        by Nadine Kamal Karrit

        You may be both different and the same as all the other children.This is what this book tackling the Down Syndrome explains, through the story of a child who just wants to be friends with everybody else.

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        I Am Not Alone
        Children's & YA

        I Am Not Alone

        by Ramy Tawil

        Maher realizes one day he is an only child with no siblings. He starts to feel a bit lonely, and wishes he had siblings - like his friends and cousins. Luckily, his toys are here and now it’s time to show Maher what it means to be surrounded with brothers and sisters.It’s a heartwarming story that shows how rich and powerful the imagination of an only child can be.

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        What's On Your Face?
        Children's & YA

        What's On Your Face?

        by Fatima Jamal Abdullah

        Amin, a little boy, is the narrator of this story. Ill with the vitiligo disease, which causes his skin to have large white stains, Amin struggles in school.As Amin describes his daily challenges, young readers gain a better understanding of his behaviors and learn valuable lessons about tolerance and acceptance. As his parents say, what matters is that he has a white heart, pure and kind

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        A Paper Tale
        Children's & YA

        A Paper Tale

        by Takla Oubada

        The white paper felt sad for being left blank. But its feelings changed when it saw the writer’s hand waking the sleeping pen up, and drawing letters and words on its white page.

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        The Autumn of Innocence
        Fiction
        January 2016

        The Autumn of Innocence

        by Abbas Beydoun

        In his novel, The Autumn of Innocence, prominent Lebanese poet and novelist Abbas Beydoun artfully weaves a tragic story of a father-son relationship that ends disastrously with the son's violent death. This story unfolds along with the Arab Spring movement and explores the motivations behind religious extremism and questions cultural constructs of masculinity.   The novel opens with a letter from Ghassan to his cousin, describing how his father Massoud strangled his mother to death when Ghassan was just three years old. Afterward, Massoud flees the village in southern Lebanon. For 18 years, no one hears from him, and Ghassan grows up stigmatized by his father's violent crime.   In time, Ghassan's aunt Bushra-Massoud's sister-makes a confession: She encouraged Massoud to kill his wife, believing that his wife's low socioeconomic status would bring embarrassment to their wealthy family. Bushra also reveals that Massoud was driven to kill his wife because he feared that she would tell someone that he was impotent, undermining his sense of manhood and social status.   Meanwhile, Massoud has moved to southern Syria, where he remarried and had two more sons. During the Arab Spring, the militant groups fighting the Syrian regime transform him into a religious extremist.   In the second half of the novel, Massoud return to the village in southern Lebanon. He brings with him a group of men. Together they seize control of the village and terrorize its inhabitants. After killing the dogs, they begin murdering the villagers in the name of religion. One of Ghassan's friends is among the victims, and Massoud also threatens his family. Ghassan decides that he must kill his father, avenging the death of his friend and the deaths of the other villagers. In the end, he fails and is beheaded by Bushra's son, his cousin, who is has joined Massoud's thugs.   Beydoun captures the shifting points of view in a family shattered by the tyranny of normative masculinity and the resulting violence. The victims are women, of course, but also the men like Ghassan who reject these social and cultural expectations. The novel also portrays the rise of religious extremism and the terrorism it can inspire, which wreaks havoc on the lives of ordinary people. Beydoun's engaging language imbues the characters and the places they inhabit with a vibrancy and vitality that transcends the difficult subject matter.

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        The Mystery of the Glass Ball
        Fiction
        2021

        The Mystery of the Glass Ball

        by Maria Dadouch

        Ghassan Al Ghurairi had to accompany his old grandfather to the Leewy Museum in the middle of the desert. They are attending a ceremony honoring his grandfather, who spent his entire life in service of the desert. As they head to their destination onboard an ancient train, Ghassan came across a conspiracy plotted by the criminal Aqrabawi and his bald friend— disguised as two elderly women—to poison the oasis’s water supply. In place of the ecological life in the desert, they want to make way for an international resort and take over the place. Although Ghassan doesn’t mean to confront this conspiracy alone, he finds himself embroiled face-to-face with the criminals. Fortunately for him, a girl appears at his side to help. Sophia Al-Adnani from Chiparazumpia is also heading with her grandfather and his great eco-friendly invention, the glass ball, to the Leewy Museum, where her grandfather is to be honored. The two children are able to hold off the criminals initially, but not for long, as Aqrabawi and his friend soon reappear—this time deadest on revenge against the two children. Ghassan and Sophia resist in the face of intimidation and threats, and, using clever intrigue, they manage to disarm the conspirators and escape seconds before the desert guards arrive and arrest the criminals.

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      • Sadiqati Wal Manadeel Al Moulawwana

        Sadiqati Wal Manadeel Al Moulawwana

        by Razan Rakha

        The family is considered as the first support for the cancer patient, especially for children. Being accepted in his/her own close and extended family will allow him to win the psychological battle over his fiercest enemy.  From this perspective, this book describes the struggle of a young girl Nagham, a leukemia patient, who tries to get support and validation from her extended family. Nagham describes her battle against cancer through a game "the colored scarfs game".

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      • Sadiqi (My Friend)
        Children's & YA

        Sadiqi (My Friend)

        by Samar Mahfouz Barraj

        What really matters when I choose a friend? Is it the way he looks? Is it the color of his skin? What if he wears eyeglasses or uses hearing aids? What if he is slow in running? What if he was different? What do I really care about in my friend? In addition, what are the things that keep us together even if we were different from each other? A book about friendship and accepting others.

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      • Kachef Al-Asrar (The Revealer Of Secrets)

        Kachef Al-Asrar (The Revealer Of Secrets)

        by Hooda Chawa Qaddumi

        I am the revealer of secrets; in me are marvels of wisdom and strange and hidden things!   If an ancient device could tell you the future, would you dare to know? "The Secret Revealer" is a time travel adventure story based on an Islamic art artifact in the British Museum. On a summer school trip to the museum, the teenage boy Omar is intrigued by an intricately designed metallic automata suspended in a glass cabinet in the Islamic Art Department.  Peering at its enigmatic Kufic calligraphic inscription, he reads "I am the revealer of secrets; in me are marvels of wisdom and strange and hidden things". Omar is transported back in time to Baghdad to the year 1241 of the Abbasid era. An encounter with astrologer, scientist and creator of the device, the enigmatic Khutlukh, results in an adventurous quest that includes a visit to the Sultan's palace, a secret labyrinthine library of magical manuscripts and a menagerie of exotic animals. The twosome, accompanied by a cheeky monkey, embark on a mission  to present the Secret Revealer device to the glamorous Queen of Egypt, Shajar al Durr who is desperate for means  to hold on to power of her crumbling court as  sinister forces eager to claim the magical "Secret Revealer" are at work.

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      • Cappuccino
        Children's & YA

        Cappuccino

        by Fatima Sharafeddine

        A 16 year-old boy, Anas, in a family where the father physically and emotionally abuses the mother, realized that he is old enough now to protect his mom, and his young sister (who sees the abuse and had been beaten a couple of times herself). Anas fears his father, has had his share of physical violence, and had always felt that this is a big secret, in a way that even his closest friends do not know about it; he tries not to let them notice anything abnormal in his family. His sole refuge to express his sadness and anger, is in writings in a diary, something he has been doing from a younger age. At times Anas succeeds to get his mom out of the house to the Abused Women Center. But she always decides to come back, having no other choices. His mom’s parents are not supportive of the idea of the mother leaving her home and husband, divorce being a taboo in some communities. On top of that, the husband forces her to quit her job at some point. One day, a new girl, Leena, joins the yoga class Anas attends, and they become close friends, meeting for Cappuccino at a local café for long talks, and going out sometimes with other friends. Leena also has issues in her family. They used to live in France, but since her father’s death they were forced by the uncle to move back to Lebanon. Leena with her mom and sister suffer from his authority but the law is against them (in the Lebanese the legislations related to civic issues is sectarian, and in one of the sects, when the father who has only daughters- no sons, it is his brother who inherits him, rather than his wife and daughters). Besides, the uncle puts pressure on the family to marry Leena’s older sister from his son. Leena also feels no one should know about this misfortune they have to deal with.  Despite the closeness of Anas and Leena, they both succeed to keep their secrets from each other until, by chance, Leena meets Anas’ mom at the Abused Women Center with bruised swollen eyes (Leena’s mom volunteers there). That is when she decides to talk to Anas about her own issues, and to get him to talk about his problems, in the hope that they both will have to help their mothers to change their fate. In the end, the legal solution for Anas’ mom is to put the husband under surveillance and out of the house for a month, and he only comes back under the terms of the wife. In Leena’s case, their solution is to leave everything (the inheritance and properties) to the uncle and leave to France again, where they will live of the life insurance of the deceased father, and where they have many friends that will help Leena’s mom to find a job. The story is written from 2 points of view, Anas and Leena, alternating the voice by the chapter. The topic is serious but the style is pleasant and teens will relate to the two characters and their friends in the story. This is an eye opener to young readers, showing them that violence is not acceptable and that they have a say in that, it is not in the hands of the abuser.

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      • The Kaminsky Cure
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        The Kaminsky Cure

        by Christopher. New

        Willibald Brinkmann, a Lutheran pastor, has more than a sneaking admiration for Hitler - something his Jewish wife Gabi is unable to share. It's 1933 when the Brownshirts tell Willibald to 'go find another twig to perch on' and he loses no time abandoning his prestigious Berlin parish. Humiliated and resentful, Willibald finds refuge in the tiny village of Heimstatt high in the Austrian Alps, where Gabi's last child - and narrator of the story - is born. Then the Nazis arrive in Austria. Gabi struggles to protect her family against the ever-tightening vice of persecution and the remorseless approach of the Final Solution. Terrifying yet darkly humorous, "The Kaminsky Cure" is the story of Gabi Brinkmann's fight to keep her family alive in a world determined to destroy them.

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      • The Artist, The Censor, and The Nude
        The Arts: General Issues
        September 2017

        The Artist, The Censor, and The Nude

        A Tale of Morality and Appropriation

        by Glenn Harcourt, Pamela Joseph, Francis M. Naumann

        Thoughtful and rigorous, the book provides an excellent survey of contemporary censorship. – Publishers Weekly   This hybrid book examines the art and politics of “The Nude” in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art censored in Iran. Featuring American artist Pamela Joseph’s feminist appropriation of these images as well as Iranian and other Middle Eastern contemporary artists Aydin Aghdashloo (Iran), Boushra Almutawakel (Yemen), Ana Lily Amirpour (Great Britain/USA), Gohar Dashti (Iran), Daryoush Gharahzad (Iran), Shadi Ghadirian (Iran), Bahman Ghobadi (Iranian Kurdistan), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan), Katayoun Karami (Iran), Hoda Katebi (USA), Simin Keramati (Iran/Canada), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran/ Great Britain), Shohreh Mehran (Iran), Houman Mortazavi (Iran), Manijeh Sehhi (Iran), and Newsha Tavakolian (Iran/USA).

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