Maḥfūẓ, Najīb
Summary: Never has Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than in this outstanding novel, first published in Arabic in 1947. One of his most popular books (and considered by many to be one of his best), Midaq Alley centers around the residents of one of the teeming back alleys of Cairo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHNajma.
Contents: Rishte -- Fragrance -- Aksar -- Behaal -- Woh Dhin -- Special rider blues -- Naya Dhin -- Da aya -- Parda -- Soul taker -- Pensif Khayal.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Village 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN/INDONESIAN AKHNajma.
Contents: Jheel mai chand -- Dil mai -- Jhoomo gao -- Pukar -- Dil jala ne -- Improvisation (semi-classical) -- Baabul -- Pukar (without tabla).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mondo Melodia 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN/INDONESIAN NajmaMahfuz, Najib
Summary: The first book of the Cairo Trilogy recreates turn-of-the-century Cairo, with characters who are simultaneously disciplined and sensual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHSummary: Following up on his masterfully told art house successes, The Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise, Majid Majidi directs this quietly affecting tale about illegal Afghan immigrants living and working in Iran.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARNajmī, Ḥasan.
Summary: As Hassan Najmi's acclaimed novel begins, our unnamed narrator befriends an elderly man, Muhammad, who, as a young man, worked as a tour guide in the city of Tangier. Muhammad tells the narrator about his most famous clients, the renowned Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice Toklas, who-on the recommendation of Henri Matisse-hired Muhammad as their guide when they visited Morocco. Now close...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAJMazari, Najaf
Summary: "This enchanting novel of interwoven legends burns with both gentle intelligence and human warmth. This extraordinary book, derived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, presents a mesmerizing portrait of a people who triumph withintelligence and humor over the oppressions of political dictators and an unforgiving landscape. A musician conjures stones to rise in the air...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAZSummary: A young boy, Ali, loses his sister Zahra's school shoes. In order to stay out of trouble, the two come up with a plan to share Ali's shoes, but they must keep it a secret from their parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHINavab, Pedram
Summary: "Ditch insomnia in as little as 4 weeks with this 6-step therapeutic program for better sleep. Insomnia looks different for everyone. Whether it's caused by stress, a traumatic life event, or even a snoring partner, poor sleep can affect the quality of your waking life. But Dr. Pedram Navab wants readers to know that it's not a lost cause-falling asleep can be just as easy as waking up. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 NAVNajem, Muhammad
Summary: "Muhammad Najem was only eight years old when the war in Syria began. He was thirteen when his beloved Baba, his father, was killed in a bombing while praying. By fifteen, Muhammad didn't want to hide anymore--he wanted to act. He was determined to reveal what families like his were enduring in Syria: bombings by their own government and days hiding in dark underground shelters. Armed with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: "From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator Najwa Zebian comes a powerful approach to healing focused on building a home within yourself. In her debut book in the self-development space, poet Najwa Zebian shares her revolutionary concept of home to guide readers to embrace their vulnerability, discover their self-worth, and build their own strong foundations from the ground up. In Welcome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2021
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Summary: Based on a chilling true crime, The Monster of Florence follows the reopening of a cold caséa serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades. Marshal Guarnaccia's job with the carabinieríthe local Florentine policéusually involves restoring stolen handbags to grateful old ladies and lost cameras to bewildered tourists. So when he is assigned to work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York, NY 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NABBin Laden, Najwa.
Summary: Mother and son give us an extraordinary view of the private life of a man both loved feared by his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 BIN LADEN FAMILY BINBin Laden, Najwa.
Summary: Osama bin Laden's wife and son tell the astonishing story of the man they knew or thought they knew before September 11, 2001.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press (Griffin Edition) 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BIN LADEN BINAidt, Naja Marie
Summary: "In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call, until the shock slowly wears off. It is at once asober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms your relationship to reality, your loved ones, and time--and a book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AIDT, NAJA MARIE AIDBrahem, Anouar.
Contents: The lover of Beirut (7:44) -- Dance with waves (3:56) -- Stopover at Djibouti (6:34) -- The astounding eyes of Rita (8:41) -- Al Birwa (4:51) -- Galilee mon amour (7:17) -- Waking state (7:48) -- For no apparent reason (6:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BRANaj, Amal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3384 NAJDocter, Melinda.
Summary: How parents can help children with Asperger's Syndrome to grow and prosper If you are raising a child with Asperger's Syndrome, it can be a real challenge to find answers to your questions and make decisions while trying to keep pace with the latest developments in research and changes in the growth and behavior of your child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.92 DOCSummary: In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. CGesar tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, CGesar's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OPESummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: For Anna Maria, a woman in her fifties, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARAbbas, Marzieh
Summary: "With no mosque or Islamic school in his new neighborhood, Zain wonders who he can celebrate Ramadan with, in this introduction to the ninth month of the Islamic calendar that is a time of prayer, reflection, fasting and community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Six months after 9/11, CIA and FBI agents captured Abu Zubaydah, mistakenly believed to be number three in the Al Qaeda hierarchy. Frantic to thwart a much-feared second attack, the U.S. rendered him to a black site in Thailand. There he collided with Air Force psychologist James Mitchell. Believing that Abu Zubaydah had been trained to resist interrogation, Mitchell and others were authorized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 SCOSummary: After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, Lucía seeks refuge on a quiet Mediterranean island where she meets a new man and begins to discover the dark secrets of her past relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2003