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Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,719 ratings — published 1966
أولاد حارتنا (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 32,886 ratings — published 1959
عزازيل (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 52,695 ratings — published 2008
ثلاثية غرناطة (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,567 ratings — published 1994
ساق البامبو (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 61,021 ratings — published 2012
عائد إلى حيفا
by (shelved 43 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 28,322 ratings — published 1969
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.23 — 340,820 ratings — published 1923
Impasse des deux palais (Poche)
by (shelved 42 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,763 ratings — published 1956
رجال في الشمس (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 26,280 ratings — published 1963
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,766 ratings — published 800
The Broken Wings (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 29,809 ratings — published 1912
الحرافيش (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.40 — 21,651 ratings — published 1977
يوتوبيا (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 60,162 ratings — published 2008
The Yacoubian Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 24,035 ratings — published 2002
رأيت رام الله (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,379 ratings — published 1997
The Thief and the Dogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.65 — 13,338 ratings — published 1961
الطنطورية (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 29,784 ratings — published 2010
الخبز الحافي (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.57 — 12,031 ratings — published 1973
شيكاجو (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.43 — 22,944 ratings — published 2007
Frankenstein in Baghdad (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.59 — 21,482 ratings — published 2013
زمن الخيول البيضاء (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,471 ratings — published 2007
Midaq Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,160 ratings — published 1947
ذاكرة الجسد (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,846 ratings — published 1993
ليالي ألف ليلة (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,481 ratings — published 1979
ميرامار (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 8,501 ratings — published 1967
Celestial Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.41 — 18,489 ratings — published 2010
Le Jardin du passé (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,055 ratings — published 1957
ثرثرة فوق النيل (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 11,120 ratings — published 1966
Mornings in Jenin (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.53 — 59,322 ratings — published 2006
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,148 ratings — published 1975
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,248 ratings — published 1988
Le Palais du désir (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,832 ratings — published 1957
موت صغير (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 12,269 ratings — published 2016
أفراح القبة (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,147 ratings — published 1981
العبرات (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,001 ratings — published 1915
يوميات نائب في الأرياف (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,587 ratings — published 1937
الشحاذ (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,366 ratings — published 1965
الأيام (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,057 ratings — published 1927
الأسود يليق بك (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.62 — 65,209 ratings — published 2012
واحة الغروب (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 15,005 ratings — published 2006
فوضى الحواس (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,138 ratings — published 1997
أرض البرتقال الحزين (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,920 ratings — published 1962
بداية ونهاية (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,783 ratings — published 1949
كليلة ودمنة (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,386 ratings — published 750
قمر على سمرقند (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,214 ratings — published 2004
التيه (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,061 ratings — published 1984
أرض زيكولا (أرض زيكولا، #1)
by (shelved 17 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 49,901 ratings — published 2010
Girls of Riyadh (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.29 — 21,603 ratings — published 2005
في قلبي أنثى عبرية (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 64,058 ratings — published 2012
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
by (shelved 17 times as arabic-literature)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,232 ratings — published 1957
“Arabs & Garbage"
Strange is the Arab story with garbage— who told them, who taught them to toss waste carelessly, wherever and however they please?
When will Arabs understand that putting garbage in its proper place could solve half of their environmental and societal woes?
And the other half? That too would vanish if they stopped casting away their human gems— their brightest minds, forced to serve others abroad.
When will they stop discarding their best in favor of foreign refuse they glorify simply because it comes draped in white skin and blue eyes, boasting skills they claim Arabs can’t survive without?
When will they grasp that real change lies in placing all garbage— be it those who govern them or those they import— exactly where it belongs?”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
Strange is the Arab story with garbage— who told them, who taught them to toss waste carelessly, wherever and however they please?
When will Arabs understand that putting garbage in its proper place could solve half of their environmental and societal woes?
And the other half? That too would vanish if they stopped casting away their human gems— their brightest minds, forced to serve others abroad.
When will they stop discarding their best in favor of foreign refuse they glorify simply because it comes draped in white skin and blue eyes, boasting skills they claim Arabs can’t survive without?
When will they grasp that real change lies in placing all garbage— be it those who govern them or those they import— exactly where it belongs?”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
“Lights”
Lights of churches, monasteries, Christmas trees, and magnificent mosques.
The dim lights inside warm houses in every foreign city where I wandered alone.
The far-away headlights of cars crossing bridges, watched from the windows of dreary hotels on clear, moonlit nights.
Candlelight and lanterns, the lights of small shops in ancient, forgotten alleys, the lights of ships sailing to places I will never see, lamp-post lights on dark, rainy winter nights, solitary lighthouses and the lights of unknown fishermen, the glittering lights I saw in the eyes of kind strangers in cities tourists never visit.
All these lights I once loved now break me; they remind me of the magical light that was extinguished in your eyes…”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
Lights of churches, monasteries, Christmas trees, and magnificent mosques.
The dim lights inside warm houses in every foreign city where I wandered alone.
The far-away headlights of cars crossing bridges, watched from the windows of dreary hotels on clear, moonlit nights.
Candlelight and lanterns, the lights of small shops in ancient, forgotten alleys, the lights of ships sailing to places I will never see, lamp-post lights on dark, rainy winter nights, solitary lighthouses and the lights of unknown fishermen, the glittering lights I saw in the eyes of kind strangers in cities tourists never visit.
All these lights I once loved now break me; they remind me of the magical light that was extinguished in your eyes…”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
