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Al Qursan
Set in the early nineteenth century, during one of the most important periods of history in the Arabian Gulf, this groundbreaking and exciting novel unfolds against the backdrop of the brutal struggle between the british Empire and the Wahabi tribes of the Gulf for control of the area.
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Ahmed, a society photographer in a celebrated Cairo nightclub, witnesses a friend horrifically killed in a fight between young business rivals. Forced to escape the scene of the crime and go into hiding, Ahmed is ensnared in a web of coverups and crimes whose perpetrators will stop at nothing to hide. In this sprawling political thriller, Ahmed is forced to confront ruthless players.
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A grim futuristic account of Egyptian society in the year 2023, Utopia takes readers on an action-packed journey that ventures beyond the gated communities that insulate the wealthy from the bleak realities of Egyptian life. A young man and a young girl break away from the idyllic bubble of affluence they know so well, to delve into the harsh realities of the impoverished Egyptians living right outside the fortified gates of their compounds.
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Ghadan Kif Kif
The residential Paradise projects are only a few Metro stops from central Paris, but it’s a different world. Doria’s father, the Beard, has headed back to Morocco, leaving Doria and her mother to cope. It seems that mektoub – their fate – has it in for them them but Doria will prove that the ‘projects’ are about more than rap, soccer and religious tension.
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Wazn Al Ruh
When Lounès is suspended from school a sequence of events changes his life. Innocently caught up in a heroin deal that turns ugly, the young man faces a media-fed storm of prejudice and protest. Writing with the tautness and tension of a thriller, Rachedi observes as his young hero inspires and unites otherwise isolated suburban residents, with surprising results.
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Al Ghumama Al Hamra
‘I come from a world where adolescence does not exist.’ At the age of fifteen, the narrator decides to leave his native Algeria and smuggle himself to France. For two years his determination to succeed overcomes all barriers, until he is confronted by the greatest challenge of all. One morning a ‘red veil’ falls over his eyes.
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