Galia ELKADI and Alain BONNAMY

The Arabic translation of La cité des morts
Cairo’s great medieval necropolis stretches 12 km and is a major part of the city’s landscape. It contains mausolea from all periods and some of the finest Mamluk architecture in the region. In Architecture for the Dead, Galila El Kadi and Alain Bonnamy present a detailed and visually stunning survey of the necropolis.
They document the wide variety of architectural styles, from grand stone buildings to finely decorated wooden structures. The book also shows how modern families live among the tombs, creating a space for the living within this historic cemetery.

Galila El Kadi is a renowned Egyptian architect, urban planner, and emeritus research director at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) in France, specializing in Arab urban heritage, particularly Cairo. She is a UNESCO expert and former advisor to the Governor of Cairo, known for her expertise in urban conservation and modern architectural history.

424 pages - 45 $ - ISBN : 978-977-8880-19-9

Maged WAHEEB

It is an imaginative biography of Judas Iscariot, covering his life from birth to death, and exploring his questions about salvation and his relationship with God. The novel aligns with the limited information about Judas found in the Gospels, but it uses imagination to fill in the gaps and provides a complete picture of his motives and struggles.
The novel is also interested in drawing a realistic picture of Palestine in that era, of its geography, historical background and the social life of its people.
The novel presents fictional characters side by side with people from Gospel, the most important of which is the character of Christ himself. The novel preserves the presentation of Christ, as it pertains to his actions and dialogues, to the information and image provided in the Gospels.

Maged Wahib has published three novels and a collection of short stories. He has also written scripts for cinema and many articles and on various cultural websites and in magazines such as Maraya.

264 pages - 16 $ - ISBN : 978-977-6898-30-1

By a group of researchers ; edited by Mohamed GAD

Part 1
What do the big brands that dominate our daily lives really mean — from the burger sandwich we eat to the oil company that fuels our cars ? Has the entry of the private sector into the core of Egypt’s economy over nearly half a century of economic liberalization improved our lives and driven progress, or are we moving in the opposite direction ?
This book examines the economic and social transformations that have taken place in Egypt from the 1970s to the present. It traces the state’s gradual withdrawal from economic activity and the rise of the private sector taking its place across various industries.
386 pages - 16 $ - ISBN : 978-977-6648-80-7

Part 2
Egypt’s history since 1952 is often seen as a struggle between military and civilian rule, but class conflict and production patterns are the real drivers.
After Sadat’s economic opening, parasitic capitalism grew on the ruins of Nasser’s public sector.
It relies on quick profits, imported materials, and state support through corrupt deals.
Privatization in the 1990s weakened Egyptian industry and increased dependence on the dollar.
Today, the state controls key sectors like energy and real estate, leaving a weak private sector behind.
235 pages - 16 $ - ISBN : 978-977-6648-81-4

Kamel RIAHI

In this collection of private diaries, Kamel Riahi takes us behind the scenes of writing to spy on the work of an essayist, showing how the idea for an article is born through an enjoyable oscillation between diaries, opinion pieces, and cultural essays that emerge from the everyday.
The reader delves into the writer’s mind, experiencing a unique writing journey in a unique time, when human movement came to a halt and death stood at every door. It was then that people began to rediscover themselves by posing the age-old question —Who are we ?— as it had never been asked before.

Kamel Riahi is a Tunisian novelist and journalist. He holds advanced degrees in the critique of Arabic literary fiction. He has worked as a correspondent for numerous magazines and websites and has hosted several television programs. He has received multiple awards, including the Golden Comar Award for Best Tunisian Novel in 2007 and the Short Story Prize in Cairo in 2005. His works have been translated into French, Italian, English, Hebrew, and Portuguese.

2025 - 276 pages - ISBN : 978625977160
Diary literature, essays

Mamdouh FARAJ AL-NABI

The Rhetoric of Black Writing is a bold critical journey through the turbulent paths of writing, where imagination takes the lead, desire dictates, and the boundaries of authority intersect with the dilemmas of cultural censorship. The book invites the reader to reclaim the experience of writing as a tool of resistance and as a means to shape an alternative discourse to the dominant one.
Through this work, Mamdouh Faraj Al-Nabi offers a balanced critical reading that serves as a « narrative artery, » pumping fresh perspectives into the heart of literary discourse without dissolving into rigid theories or recycled slogans. It is a discourse grounded in critical knowledge, reshaping concepts from within and building bridges between the text and the reader in search of an authentic voice.

Mamdouh Faraj Al-Nabi is an Egyptian academic and literary critic who writes for arab newspapers and both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals. He has received numerous literary awards in the field of literary criticism, including the Sharjah Award, the Katara Award for Critical Studies, and the Taha Hussein Award. His notable works include The Autobiographical Novel in Egypt, Naguib Mahfouz : Memory and Forgetting, and Recovering Taha Hussein.

2025 - 365 pages - ISBN : 978625977160
Diary Studies and Literary Criticism

Ahmed Abdel HALIM

Ahmed Abdel Halim’s 1995 novel The Follower and Suleiman is a tense, ironic narrative that portrays exile not as freedom but as another prison. The story follows a young Egyptian political prisoner who escapes to Beirut, redefining his bond with homeland through memories of childhood and adolescence.
At its core, the novel is about rejection —of prison, exile, and even belonging— yet this rejection paradoxically becomes a form of belonging. Abdel Halim ties the body to power, weakness, and resistance, stripping it of love.
For the marginalized, love is unreachable ; anger, rebellion, and insult take its place. The novel reflects fractured consciousness, where rejection and yearning coexist in exile’s suffocating space.

Ahmed Abdel Halim is an Egyptian writer, researcher, and political activist, born in Damietta in 1995. His work focuses on political sociology, the body and its relationship to authoritarianism, and punitive policies in Egyptian prisons.

2025 - 264 pages - ISBN : 9786259771991
Novel

Khalifa Al KHUDER

Khalifa Al-Khader, winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press 2017, writes some scenes of fear in the details of his experience in ISIS prisons in the city of al-Bab, his escape from prison, and his return to him later after ISIS was expelled from the city.
Khalifa does not tell us about ISIS from outside, he stayed inside the monster, and went out to narrate some of what he saw, heard, and lived...

Khalifa Al KHUDER is a Syrian photographer, journalist and writer, winner of the Samir kassir Award in Opinion Article category 2017.

152 pages - ISBN : 978-9933-540-39-5
Fiction

Mamdouh ADWAN

The world of organized and random oppression that a person lives in this age, is a world that is neither suitable for man nor for the growth of his humanity. Rather, it is a world that cultivates the “animality” of man (i.e. turning him into an animal). The writer deals with this topic like a researcher, but with the mentality, the temperament and the style of a writer. He is not going to propose another theory or refute another.

Our perception of the human being that we should be is not impossible to achieve, even if it comes from a literary or artistic conception. But this perception makes us, “when we see the reality in which we live”, feel the size of our losses during our human journey, which are cumulative and continuous losses as long as the world of oppression and humiliation exists and continues. And we will end up becoming creatures of another type whose name was “man”, or aspired to be a human being, without changing form.

Mamdouh ADWAN‎ was a prolific Syrian writer, poet, playwright and critic. He published his first collection of poetry in 1967 then he published 18 further collections. He has also published 2 novels, 25 plays, translated 23 books from English including the Iliad, the Odyssey and a biography of George Orwell. and Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis, he wrote a number of TV series. He wrote regularly on Arab current affairs, he also taught at the Advanced Institute for Theater in Damascus.

288 pages - ISBN : 978-9933-540-06-7
Non-fiction

Mamdouh AZZAM

After twenty years of work, Salem finishes his service in the gendarme’s cavalry and returns to his home and family in Deir al-Qarn, bringing with him the only companion who has stayed with him for all those years : his horse. Family members have mixed feelings towards this guest, who will now be part of the family. The storytelling chains take place between the five children and the mother, and as they rotate, they weave stories and build worlds. In this novel, Mamdouh Azzam writes, in a new and different way from his previous novels, a tale about a simple family living its tranquility and fear, its surrender and rejection, its peace and struggles, to move within us endless questions and reflections, while freedom writes in its broad sense the chapter of the end.

Mamdouh AZZAM is a Syrian novelist. His most celebrated and controversial novel is The Palace of Rain, a powerful and daring treatment of taboos in the conservative Druze religion and community. His novel Ascension to Death was translated into English and French. And was adapted into an acclaimed film in 1995.

256 pages - ISBN : 978-9933-540-75-3
Fiction

Michael SOMMER
Translated from German by D^r. Nabil Al Haffar

In this brief research, ancient civilization scholar Michel Sommer provides an exemplary model of a study in the science of history, which assimilated Assmann’s ideas about the theoretical field productively. Concerning the civilizational history of the region extending between the Mediterranean and the Tigris River, in the late Greek and Greek times, it is a sensitive and controversial research in fact, not because it explores the historical roots of the civilization region, which the Romans called Syria - and it is today implicitly and brutally involved in gang and proxy wars, in a form of « third world war », according to the diagnosis of many observers - but because in his analysis of social models and religious systems in the late Greek and Greek era, he paints a new, humanistic picture of the different cultures of the empire and their intellectual status.
Michael Sommer has succeeded, by being realistic and exciting at the same time, in shedding lights on the past that shows every concrete detail as part of a tangled relationship, as it opens up horizons, that questions and doubts current “clichés” !

2020 - 224 pages - ISBN : 978- 9953 -583 -93-8

Boutros AL MAARI

This book offers pleasure to the eye as well as to the mind of the reader. Neither the texts are the basis for it nor the drawings, but rather they complement each other to produce an art book that we rarely find in our libraries. Al-Maari tries to be as simple as his paintings, simple in his texts and ideas that he calls stories and that are not without a poetic whiff or literary value. Damascus also is strongly present in his texts and he is not apologetic in showing his longing to his mother-city, so he celebrates it from a distance as if he is still walking in its streets and alleys like any young lover.
Through this book, Al-Maari tries to attract the ordinary audience - as he calls it – and lead them through the door of reading and savoring art from his simple yet sophisticated way of drawing and writing.
We hope that this experience will be a motivation for similar works by our writers and young artists, enriching our Arabic library.

2018 - 88 pages - ISBN : 978-9933-9242-6-3
Arabic

DOSTOEVKY
Translated from Russian by Adnan Jamous

Sheikh Hamad award for translation and international understanding for the achievement in Russian – Arabic translation
Doha – Qatar - 2018

This book includes a summary of rich experience, acquired by a creative person during his lifetime, with all the harsh tribulations and violent clashes, shameful slips, noble stances, and impressive creative achievements.
The writer monitored all the subtle aspects of the development of the « living life » and followed very carefully the reflection of its manifestations in the Russian and foreign press. Eyewitnesses state : that the writer used to review newspapers and magazines daily « until the last column of them », and was keen to capture through the great diversity of important and secondary facts, its internal unity, its socio-psychological foundations, its spiritual-moral essence, and its philosophical-historical significance. It is interesting that some contemporary Russian intellectuals of Dostoyevsky considered that his genius was more evident in his « diaries » than in his « creative works ».
What gives this volume its added value, is that it is the first time that Dostoevsky is translated directly from Russian to Arabic.

2017 - 688 pages - ISBN : 978-9933-9242-1-8
Arabic

Hedi TIMOUMI

Avant l’établissement du « Protectorat » français sur la Tunisie en 1881, le pays a été durant la période 1831-1877 le théâtre d’une tentative de modernisation très originale (abolition de l’esclavage, promulgation de la première constitution du monde arabo-islamique en 1861 : une constitution très en avance sur son époque : n’a-t-elle pas stipulé la liberté de culte même pour le roi dan un pays islamique comme la Tunisie).
L’auteur, professeur d’histoire contemporaine à l’université tunisienne, a essayé d’exposer les faits de cette expérience modernisante sous leur vrai jour, n’en déplaise aux partisans de KHERE DDINE l’icône. Ce dernier, vrai cerveau de ce modernisme précoce est l’auteur du célèbre ouvrage : la voie la plus sûre pour connaître l’état des royaumes (1867). Il a été successivement premier ministre de la Tunisie et de l’empire ottoman. Cela en dit long sur sa grande envergure politique, mais la différence est énorme entre KHERE DDINE l’icône et KHERE DDINE le réel.
L’auteur a analysé les causes du quasi-avortement de cette première expérience réformiste. Parmi ces causes, beaucoup n’ont jamais été évoquées par les historiens de cette période telles la tentative anachronique de KHERE DDINE d’instaurer un véritable servage en Tunisie en 1874, les lacunes dans la formation intellectuelle de ce grand réformateur, son manque de combativité au moment opportun…

Maison Mohamad Ali Hammi -
2010 ; 300 pages ; ISBN : 978-9973-33-266-0

La Flambée de la résistance à Sfax - Taoufik ABDELMOULA

Taoufik ABDELMOULA né à Sfax le 19/09/1932, est diplômé de l’école supérieure de commerce de Tunis. C’est dans la pratique de l’industrie et du commerce qu’il a fait son expérience.
1960/1995- il a dirigé plusieurs sociétés commerciales et industrielles.
1966-1977 - Il a fondé l’Ecole COD.
Pendant 13 ans, il a développé, expérimenté et mis au point une nouvelle méthode d’enseignement de la comptabilité à partie(s) double(s).
1995 - il a élaboré deux manuels scolaires de comptabilité. En littérature, il a écrit 3 romans : « Un être composé » : roman de science-fiction ; « Le Ça diabolique » ; « Cassée à 9 ans ».

424 pages - 15.000 DT -
ISBN : 978-9973-33-246-2

Corps et société.
Étude anthropologique des croyances et des représentations
du corps en Ifrîqiyya médiévale

Soufia SHIRI-BEN HTIRA

Corps et société est une étude originale, non seulement par son thème très actuel mais aussi par son approche novatrice ; elle est présentée par Madame Soufia Shiri-Ben Hatira. Ce qui ressort de sa recherche, c’est l’importance accordée au corps féminin dans la culture islamique. C’est en trois grandes parties qu’elle mène l’étude du corps.

Dans un premier temps, elle s’intéresse à « la femme musulmane entre le culturel et le sacré » (car le corps féminin est d’abord vu, comme une source de désordre et la « porte de Satan ! »). C’est une analyse où l’auteur passe en revue tout ce qu’inspire le corps féminin à travers une analyse serrée des textes des théologiens et des juristes.
La deuxième partie traite de l’enjeu de ce corps féminin qui doit être caché au regard des hommes qui tourne peut-être et surtout autour de la volonté de l’exclure de l’espace public (l’espace public est donc « pôle de troubles et de lutte »). C’est une partie qui analyse, commente et discute la position des théologiens sur la place de la femme dans les différents lieux de l’espace urbain, sur les interdits énoncés.
En dernier lieu, comme toutes les religions ont énoncé des règles et réfléchi sur les notions de pur et d’impur. L’islam n’y a pas manqué et les ouvrages de foi s’étendent longuement sur les rituels de purification.
L’auteur ne manque pas de soulever ce problème, d’exposer ces concepts de pur et d’impur et de définir la souillure dans ses diverses acceptations.

Chercheuse en histoire, Soufia SHIRI-BEN HTIRA a obtenu en 2005 son doctorat de l’Université de Tunis 1 avec la mention bien honoré.

2008 - 384 pages - 15.000 DT -
ISBN : 978-9973-33-203-5

Bourhan EL DIN DELLO

اسم المؤلف : برهان الدين دلو
يشكل هذا الكتاب حقبة تاريخية هامة من تاريخ العرب وتطورهم في الجاهلية قبل الاسلام، باحثاً في التاريخ الاقتصادي، الاجتماعي، الثقافي، السياسي والديني بأسلوب التاريخ العقلاني والعلمي.

This book treats a very important period of the history of Arab people and their development in the pre-Islamic period, examining the economic, social, cultural, political, and religious history, through a rational and scientific history style.

2004 - 842 pages - 17 x 24 cm - 20 $ - ISBN : 978-9953–438–89-7

D^r. Hussein MROUÉ

اسم المؤلف : د. حسين مروة
يعتبر هذا الكتاب من الكتب الأساسية في القرن العشرين، لما حققه من اضاءات موضوعية على تاريخ الفلسفة العربية الاسلامية منذ نشأتها الأولى وعبر تجلياتها المختلفة، مستنداَ الى المنهج العلمي الجدلي في دراسته الفلسفية الاسلامية.

It is one of the most important books of the 20th century for its objective clarifications about the history of Arabic and Islamic philosophy since its creation, through its various expressions, based on a scientific and dialectical method in its Islamic and philosophical approach.

4 volumes (576, 576, 448 et 416 pages) - 17 x 24 cm - Prix 4 volumes : 70 $ (20 $ + 20 $ + 16 $ + 14 $) - ISBN volume 1 : 978-9953-71-283-3
ISBN volume 2 : 978-9953-71-284-0
ISBN volume 3 : 978-9953-71-285-7
ISBN volume 4 : 978-9953-71-286-4

Farah ANTOUN

اسم المؤلف : فرح أنطون
ان هذا الكتاب الذي صدر عام 1903 في مدينة اسكندرية يشكل شاهداً على التراكم الثقافي العربي التنويري في الحياة الثقافية في المنطقة وسقوط المشاريع النهضوية البرجوازية وتصاعد الهيمنة الاوروبية الرأسمالية على مصر وسوريا والعراق والمغرب العربي.

Published in 1903 in Alexandria, this book is a kind of evidence of the accumulation of Arab cultures in cultural life of the region, of the fall of “bourgeoisie” projects of expansion, of the increase in European capitalist hegemony over Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Arab Maghreb as well.

2007 - 376 pages - 21 x 14 cm - 9.50 $ - ISBN : 978-9953-438-89-7