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(0)Rabih Alameddine
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"Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage.' Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read-- by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, 'the three witches, ' discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya...
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CSPL Arab American Heritage Month
HPL Arab American Heritage Month 2023
Pride Month 2023 - Green Hills Adult Fiction
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HPL Arab American Heritage Month 2023
Pride Month 2023 - Green Hills Adult Fiction
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"Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose...
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Arab American Heritage Month 2022
Muslim American Heritage Month (adults)
Muslim Authors
The Muslim Experience - Adults
Muslim American Heritage Month (adults)
Muslim Authors
The Muslim Experience - Adults
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The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is...
4) The hakawati
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In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching stories--of his arrival in Lebanon, an orphan of the Turkish wars, and of how he...
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Arabic
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t litnsab min bayn ydayha kllma addet al'iihkam ealayha, ftqf eajztan 'amam aistihqaq kitabat mdhkkratha. hi ealiqat dwmana fi alfasl alawwl min riwayatiha, tuhawil lamlamat shadharat hyat baetharatiha alahdath: harb lubnan fi 'akthar zawayaha qitamata. masat altshrdhm aleayly bayn wald aistabdal zawjatih alamyrkyt bi'ukhraa tqlydyt, wwaldt eanat mararat altalaq htta 'aqdamat ealaa al'iinthar. almanfaa aldhy faradath ealaa nafsiha fi 'amirka. ealaqat...
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Polish
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In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching stories--of his arrival in Lebanon, an orphan of the Turkish wars, and of how he...
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"A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andre Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. 'An essay is the child of uncertainty,' Andre Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. 'The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its...