Recommended Arabic books
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The Read Around The World Challenge is a global challenge.
Anyone can join the challenge from anywhere in the world in any language they want.
This is the list of all Arabic books added by participants of this reading challenge.
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EgyptDescription:
In this haunting and controversial novel, Youssef Ziedan confronts issues as vital today as they were nearly two millennia ago. Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk's journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Church. Winner of the Arab Booker Prize, Azazeel highlights how the history of our civilization has been warped by greed and avarice since its very beginnings and how one man's beliefs are challenged not only by the malice of the devil, but by the corruption with the early Church. In ... continue
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Catalogue of a Private Life by Najwa Bin Shatwan AR
LibyaDescription:
A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has ... continue
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Saudi Arabia
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KuwaitDescription:
وتدور الرواية حول معاناة معلم مصرى يسافر مع زوجته إلى الكويت لتحسين أوضاعه المادية والاجتماعية، إلا أنه يواجه الكثير من المصاعب، بداية من رفض والده سفرهن حتى معاناته وألمه فى الكويت.
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