In his new memoir, Nursultan Nazarbayev, founder and first president of modern Kazakhstan, reveals the top-secret "sauna diplomacy" and high-stakes negotiations that moved the world back from the brink. #ColdWar#NuclearSecurity#HistoryUncovered#Kazakhstan#GlobalSecurity #Nazarbayev
From the lyric verse of ancient nomadic poets to the "towering buildings that reach for the heavens"...
Khaled Ahmed Al-Youssef draws a line from ancient souqs to the modern Gulf trading hubs, exploring a society in "dramatic flux".
A spell-binding tale of #IdentityAndIntegrity.
#WadianAlAbraizi #ArabicLiterature #NomadicPoets #AlKhobar #Buraydah #ModernArabia
Walid is thirty-one years old and running from ghosts he has spent twenty years avoiding. When he faces the prospect of an early death, a chance encounter with a stranger forces him to confront his deepest fears... #TheLastLetter#EmanOmarHajam#SelfDiscovery#Healing #ArabicTranslation
A spellbinding love story that traces a line from modern glass skyscrapers back to the ancient souqs of Saudi Arabia. Saad and Hessa fight to transcend the rules and traditions that have pursued them for a thousand years... #WadianAlAbraizi#KhaledAhmedAlYoussef#Arabianfiction #AlKhobar #ContemporaryArabic
Follow Naji, Safar, and Fahd as they roam four iconic cities, navigating the essence of youthful dreams and the enduring power of friendship. A novel that is both a personal journey and a sharp commentary on the socio-cultural landscape. #TheMeaningOfAdoration#AhamedAldwihy #ArabicLiterature #Cairo #Riyadh #ArtAndFriendship
"I can’t believe my eyes. I have finally found you!"
A chance encounter in a crowded spice market reopens wounds that have been festering for thirty years. When Jalal invites his old friend Ghassan to his wedding anniversary, he has no idea he is inviting back a past that refuses to stay buried ...
#TheLameOldMan #ArabicFiction #Hofuf #FamilySecrets #MeccaSiege
Thirty years of silence were shattered in a single afternoon.
When Jalal bumps into his childhood friend Ghassan, an invitation to a wedding anniversary party seems like the perfect reunion. But old wounds are about to be reopened...
Marwan Al Bakheet, a new voice from Saudi Arabia, here in translation.
#TheLameOldMan #ArabicTranslation #MarwanAlBakheet #FamilySecrets #Mecca1979
"Haitham al-Assem arrived in London as a fugitive, fleeing the political turmoil of Riyadh in the winter of 1990.
For nearly two decades, he has lived as a 'January man'—embracing new beginnings in the cold silence of the West End.
But when he meets Wellada, an Iraqi Sabean who carries the scent of Babel, his quiet life of exile is shattered by a passion that borders on madness."
#WorldLiterature #LondonExile #NomadPublishing #TranslatedFiction @Atheer_alNashmi
Atheer Al-Nashmi's powerful novel, I Loved You More Than I Should Have, examines the visceral emotional toll and the obsessive nature of the relationship between Jumana and Aziz - hauntingly honest prose, presented now in English for the first time.
@Atheer_alNashmi #ILovedYouMoreThanIShouldHave #ArabicLiterature #FictionInTranslation #ToxicLove
"I arrived in London... nothing more than a fugitive trying to run away from everything that surrounded me."
What happens to the soul when it is uprooted from the desert and replanted in the grey rain of London?
Haitham’s journey is a searing late-life voyage of self-discovery that questions the very nature of belonging. Another haunting novel from one of Arabia's most unflinchingly honest modern voices, Atheer Al-Nashmi.
#WorldLiterature #LondonExile #NomadPublishing #TranslatedFiction
"Jumana is a delicate butterfly trapped in the web of a man she adores but cannot trust. Aziz is mighty, cruel, and authoritarian—a man who manipulates her devotion until she must choose between her heart and her survival."
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