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E-books in English and Arabic

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us." 

        — W. H. Auden

Sharing my elibrary via google drive

Non-fiction

  1. 100 Myths About the Middle East
  2. Arabia Without Sultans
  3. Filming the Modern Middle East
  4. Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States
  5. Lineages of Revolt - Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
  6. A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa
  7. Tormented Births - Passages to Modernity in Europe and the Middle East
  8. The People Want - A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising
  9. Debt, the IMF and the World Bank
  10. Guns, Germs and Steel
  11. Necropolitics
  12. Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
  13. Envisioning Real Utopias
  14. Revolutions without Revolutionaries - Making Sense of the Arab Spring
  15. Liberalism - A Counter-History
  16. Islam in Liberalism
  17. States, Spies and Statesmen - Egypt’s Road to Revolt
  18. Women and Gender in Islam
  19. Beyond Islam
  20. Global Middle East into the Twenty-First Century
  21. Desiring Arabs
  22. Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
  23. Merchant Capital and Islam
  24. The Myths of Zionism
  25. Overcoming Zionism
  26. The Sexual Revolution
  27. Capitalist Realism - Is There no Alternative?
  28. Fields of Blood - Religion and the History of Violence
  29. The Blood Never Dried - A People’s History of the British Empire
  30. The Origin of Capitalism
  31. Empire of Capital
  32. Democracy Against Capitalism
  33. Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India
  34. Imperial Reckoning - The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
  35. Slave Empire – How Slavery Built Modern Britain
  36. The Global Political Economy of Israel
  37. The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason 1798 to Modern Times
  38. The Wretched of the Earth
  39. The Mass Psychology of Fascism
  40. The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
  41. Orientalism
  42. The Revolution Betrayed
  43.  في علمية الفكر الخلدوني
  44. نقد الفكر الديني
  45. الثالوث المحرم
  46.  ذهنية التحريم
  47. الجذور التاريخية للشريعة الإسلامية
  48.  الأسطورة والتراث
  49.  مختارات من الأعمال الكاملة لمحمود درويش
  50. النزعات المادية في الفلسفة العربية الإسلامية

Recommended fiction in Arabic and English

  1. Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
  2. Man’s Fate by André Malraux
  3. The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura
  4. Season of Migration to the North by Tayyibb Salih
  5. One Hundred of Solitude by G. G. Márquez
  6. Love in the Time of Cholera by G. G. Márquez
  7. Germinal by Émile Zola
  8. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
  9. This Earth of Mankind by Ananta Toer
  10. Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal
  11. Three Penny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
  12. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  13. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  14. 1984 by George Orwell
  15. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  16. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  17. An Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
  18. For Whom the Bells Toll by Ernest Hemingway
  19. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
4. أولاد حارتنا لنجيب محفوظ

5 . الخبز الحافي لمحمد شكري

6. الشمس في يوم غائم لحنا مينة

7 . شرق المتوسط لعبد الرحمان منيف

8. زقاق المدق لنجيب محفوظ

9. اللجنة لصنع الله إبراهيم

10. الياطر لحنا مينة




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