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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
Jon Fosse, the 2023 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. NTBNobel Prize in Literature awarded to Norwegian Jon Fosse
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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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Mamluks were originally soldiers or slaves who converted to Islam. Getty ImagesHow slaves came to rule a medieval Middle Eastern empire
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Up to 200,000 people were believed to have perished during the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon. AlamyNew book reveals brutal toll of Lebanon's Great Famine
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Artist and author Darrel Perkins's new book is a collection of 60 real-life stories. Khushnum Bhandari / The NationalProfessor in UAE writes book on historic apocalyptic prophecies
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Historian William Dalrymple will explore links between Britain and India in his Dubai appearance. AlamyIndia’s culture war and the need for nuance in writing its history
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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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Yanis Varoufakis says, in some ways, medieval peasants had it better than modern Amazon workers. Photo: Yanis VaroufakisYanis Varoufakis says capitalism has mutated into technofeudalism
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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
Zahran Alqasmi at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair. Pawan Singh / The NationalZahran Alqasmi on The Water Diviner - and why geography has its place in literature
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Ali bin Tamim, chairman of Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, speaks at Sheikh Zayed Book Award ceremony held at Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo: Khushnum Bhandari / The NationalSheikh Zayed Book Award accepting submissions for 18th iteration
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Ali Jaafar Al Allaq, the Iraqi poet, critic and university professor, won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair. Pawan Singh / The NationalAli Jaafar Al Allaq on the 'beauty and torment' of writing
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