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Bakarat suf zarqa'

Author: Yunus, Muna

Genre: Romance / Short Stories

Year: 2023 | Pages: 318 | Origin: EGY | BA Seq Num: 89228

Tales of love intertwined threads, through which the energies of illuminating love move, as woman was created from her man's rib, to him she belongs, and to her he yearns, until they meet even if the paths separate. The sea stands witness to these tales, keeping them safe in its eternal memory, preserving the dreams and footsteps of lovers throughout time, even if the sands erase them

Walif al-ruh

Translated title: Soulmate

Author: Jamal, Manar

Genre: Romance

Year: 2024 | Pages: 248 | Origin: EGY | BA Seq Num: 89241

I used to wonder what was wrong with her? Why did she never allow anyone to get close to her? I realized that she always feared closeness, feared becoming attached to someone and having them become a part of her day, only to have them leave and go. She feared being a burden to those around her, feared getting used to them and them growing tired of her. She felt intimidated by people and was afraid to express her feelings, fearing she might regret it. She feared their sudden changes without clear reasons, and she also feared being alone. Fear always prevailed over everything around her

Bir sakran

Translated title: The Drunkard's Well

Author: Salih, Ahmad Abd al-Aziz

Genre: Thriller

Year: 2024 | Pages: 239 | Origin: EGY | BA Seq Num: 89232

This psychological thriller explores themes of human nature and deep-seated fears through a gripping narrative style

Sukkan al-layl

Native title: سكان الليل

Translated title: Night Dwellers

Author: Diyab, Abd al-Rahman

Genre: Horror

Year: 2024 | Pages: 189 | Origin: EGY | BA Seq Num: 89199

Who watches you at night while you sleep? Do graveyards have inhabitants other than the living? Is a woman safe if she is glanced at unawares? The inhabitants of the night hold the answer to all these questions

Wamid azraq

Author: Abd al-Halim, Huda

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2023 | Pages: 229 | Origin: EGY | BA Seq Num: 89209

He knew the seriousness of the threats or compromises he might be exposed to, and he also knew the size of the huge financial gains that could be obtained in exchange for this risk; so he stayed away from this field despite some skill he had already acquired. Working in this field requires secrecy, caution, prudence, patience, and a lot of mystery. He would enter a secret world, a world in which he hides and does not appear, he would forget his name, and there he would have a nickname and perhaps a code or a symbol. He would work in a very narrow scope, silently

Ard al-muluk

Author: Mitri, Meryl Raja'i

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2024 | Pages: 248 | Origin: EGY | BA Seq Num: 89224

Thriller

Al-Istid'a' - min sirat al-intizar wa-al-alam

Translated title: The Summons... From the Biography of Waiting and Pain

Author: Saqai, Wahiba

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2023 | Pages: 135 | Origin: EGY | BA Seq Num: 89235

From a seemingly simple subject, the Algerian writer Wahiba Saqai, a PhD in the sciences, has crafted a complex issue encompassing political and social dimensions.

The novel evokes the atmosphere of the Inquisition, a phenomenon found only in backward, despotic societies. Europe, which dominated this era during the Middle Ages, has since risen up, rebelled, and enlightened itself, unlike our countries, whose very genes resist genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. This novel speaks exclusively to the Arab mind!

Throughout the narrative, the narrator is fiercely determined and possesses a strong personality. She embodies the intellectual's confrontation with authority, a defiant stand befitting her and her culture.

Searches, waiting, and nerve-wracking ordeals marked her journey from her home to the walls/doors, thresholds, of the summons office! This included the terror experienced by the passengers on the nearly crashed plane, and the ultimate humiliation: what was the point of a vague and suspicious summons for a writer without any clear justification? She would be taken to the 'investigator', and the citizen seemed to be treated as an enemy by the official.

The writer portrayed the summons office as akin to a prison, as if the agonizing flight was a reflection of what the passengers experienced in their real lives. It was as if the terror the narrator felt on the plane was a prelude to what she would encounter at the summons office upon arrival, depicting the most degrading form of bureaucratic treatment.

The narrator became engrossed in cursing her reality, in a romantic, psychologically painful, bureaucratic, fearful, and deteriorating state. At the beginning of the novel, she subtly revealed her crisis, not disclosing what she would reveal in moments of enlightenment towards the end