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'Lots to tell': Assouline's luxury bookshop embraces UAE stories
Operations chief tells The National how the brand, famed for coffee table books, is like Google Images, but well read
Assoluine's bookshop is open at That Concept Store, Mall of the Emirates. Chris Whiteoak / The National
Ibn Sina, pictured in a 19th century engraving, spent much of his life as a fugitive. Getty ImagesThe 'Lost Enlightenment' of Ibn Sina and Al Biruni re-examined
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Author Khaled Khalifa captured the many facets of contemporary Syrian society. Photo: Yamam AlshaarCelebrated Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa dies aged 59
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Norwegian Jon Fosse
Author won for his 'innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'
Jon Fosse, the 2023 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. NTB
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