Ibiso GRAHAM-DOUGLAS

Journey through the intricacies of life in the COVID era with this rich tapestry of short stories and poems. Eight esteemed and emerging storytellers spin narratives that traverse the landscapes of Nigeria and its diaspora, offering profound insights into the essence of our shared humanity. Witness the unravelling of a man’s secret at his funeral and the tale of a migrant grappling with despair amidst lockdown in the USA. In Pidgin English, an eavesdropper at a funeral reflects on COVID’s impact on his marriage as a young woman confronts the aftermath of a botched plastic surgery. Experience a lawyer’s efforts as he struggles to free his wrongfully imprisoned client, alongside the inner turmoil of a psychiatrist battling her own mental health issues. Immerse yourself in the journey of an abandoned wife as she forges a new reality, complemented by poems that echo the diverse emotions woven into personal and collective struggles.

2024 - 176 pages - 8,5 X 5,5 cm - $15 - ISBN: 978-978- 78501-7-6

Michael AFENFIA

Through the eyes of Owoicho, a television presenter seeking a better life for himself and his family, Leave My Bones in Saskatoon spans two cultures and continents. It is honest, heartfelt and enlightening.
The story begins with Owoicho’s good news. He can’t wait to tell his family that their permanent residency application to Canada was successful. But while he was in Abuja, happy about this breakthrough, somewhere on the outskirts of Makurdi, a dark and troubling event threatens to torpedo all the plans he and his wife, Ene, made to move the family to Saskatoon.

2023 - 275 pages - 8,5 X 5,5 cm -$15 - ISBN: 978-978-796-603-7

Chimeka GARRICKS

Its 2004 Port Harcourt, Nigeria, at the height of the kidnap of oil workers in the Niger Delta, a kidnapping goes awry, and four lives are reconnected. Douye, aka Doughboy, the career militant responsible for the crime, and Amaibi, the gentle university professor/eco-warrior accused. Kaniye, the lawyer turned restaurateur, who tries to get him off, and Tubo, an amoral oil company executive. Against a backdrop of corrupt practices, failed systems and injustice, these four friends tell the story of oil in a region and its effects on local communities and the larger Nigerian society.

2010 - 285 pages - 8,5 X 5,5 cm -$15 - ISBN: 978-978-975-689-6

Shih-Li KOW

This cross-genre collection of twenty-five short stories and flash fiction pieces explores relationships and periods of transition.
A mother questions the limits of her responsibility to her husband and son. A man operates a leaf blower during Chinese New Year, leading to tragic consequences. In speculative stories, a demolition worker dreams of clean air while Kuala Lumpur decays, and a cooking robot attempts to perfect its fried rice for a grieving family.
These characters navigate displacement and uncertainties in pursuit of better lives.
By the award-winning author of Ripples and Other Stories and the novel The Sum of Our Follies, this new collection boldly imagines scenarios we can only dream of – while subtly tethering us to Malaysian realities we can only sigh at.

Shih-Li Kow is the author of two short story collections and a novel. Ripples and Other Stories was shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her second book, The Sum of Our Follies, is also available in Italian, French and Bulgarian. The French edition (tr. Frederic Grellier) won the 2018 Prix du Premier Roman Étranger. Her latest collection is Bone Weight and Other Stories. She lives in Kuala Lumpur.

256 pages - US$12.50 - ISBN: 978-967-0042-88-6
Short Stories

Nadia KHAN

«The road less traveled really is hard. There’s no map, no manual. It’s just you trying to figure things out as you go along, all the while hoping you don’t lose yourself or your humanity.»
After suffering from a tragedy, Abby picks up the pieces of her broken self while still being plagued by the consequences of her impulsive actions. But words from the millennial bible – «Adulting is hard» – follow her like a curse as she struggles to not fall into the trap of bad decisions.
Children We Never Had is a story of profound loss and interesting findings.

Nadia Khan is an ex-doctor, psychologist and lecturer who is now living the dream as an author, screenwriter and filmmaker. She lives a low-maintenance life in Shah Alam with her soulmate and is constantly in a dilemma between travelling the world and owning a cat. In 2024 she made her film directing debut with The Musketeer Code, adapted from her own bestselling novel Gantung and its sequel.

252 pages - US$13.15 - ISBN: 9789670042695
Fiction / Contemporary Romance

Deric EEE

KL NOIR: MAGIC marks the resurrection of the notorious KL Noir series. The editor Deric Ee selects 20 original stories that bring you through the crimes and tribulations of life in Kuala Lumpur. There will be a bar hostess with a secret, a crisis in a minibus, well-dressed pontianaks, junkies discovering a new high, vampire slayers, and even an honest taxi driver. This time round, redemption may no longer be such an elusive thing.

Deric Ee is a writer, editor, and arts manager with a background in event pro-duction. He developed his skills through stints at creative agency Keepers Stu-dio, arts and culture publication The Daily Seni, placemaking consultancy lab-DNA, and the 9^th George Town Literary Festival. He is a Committee Member of PEN Malaysia.

288 pages - US$12.15 - ISBN: 9789672328483
Fiction Anthology / Crime

Jaume ENCISO (coord.)

Alerta: greenwashing. El ecoblanqueo en España es una obra coral que va más allá de un primer abc sobre el concepto. Se adentra en el alcance del fenómeno. Da ejemplos concretos de empresas y sectores que lo aplican (en las memorias de sostenibilidad, en los bancos, en el sector energético, la moda o en el del transporte marítimo y aéreo, etc.). Aborda sus límites y concluye con un decálogo de herramientas para combatirlo.

https://pol-len.cat/llibres/alerta-greenwashing-el-ecoblanqueo-en-espana/

Joseba SARRIONANDIA

Edición bilingue catalàn/euskara de la antología poética de Joseba Sarrionandia, el gran poeta y escritor vasco que, des de su largo exilio de más de 30 años, siguió creando cultura para su pueblo y para el mundo entero.

https://pol-len.cat/llibres/es-morta-la-poesia/

Partos felices es un libro coral que aporta nuevos imaginarios alrededor del parto y el nacimiento. Los relatos traspasan la línea del contexto íntimamente personal y se convierten en un testimonio social, que contribuye a hacer desaparecer el discurso inconsciente del miedo que acumula nuestra cultura en torno al parto. Tanto si has parido, como si no, esta lectura no te dejará indiferente.

https://pol-len.cat/llibres/partos-felices/

Text: Ana Zarco CÂMARA; Illustrations: Taline SCHUBACH

This bilingual book in Portuguese and eMakwa isn’t about princesses, fairies, witches, monsters, talking animals, superheroes or folklore legends. Nor does the story take place in some faraway kingdom or centuries ago. Cora is a child like any other and lives in the real world just like the rest of us. She goes to school, has friends, a family and loves to play. But Cora is left intrigued by what her friend Miriam said: «You’d better wear a headband.» The thread of this story is as wavy has the child’s hair.

2022 - 32 pages - 21 x 28 cm - MZN 895.25 (US$13.87) - ISBN: 978-989-9022-75-1

Lawrence SCHIMEL

In this fifth volume of the Collection of Stories Translated by the winners of the Literary Translation Competition we present our readers fantastic tales by Lawrence Schimel. Considered by critics to be a contemporary twist on the fairy tales that mark our folklore, these five stories open a window onto the Gay world and culture.

2023 - 112 pages - 18 x 13 cm - MZN 608.98 (US$9.44) - ISBN: 978-989-9139-06-0

Fulvio ERVAS

This novel by Fulvio Ervas tells the adventures of a group of five children and consequences of their visit to the Senior Hotel. A tale about the patience and melancholy of old age and the urgency of youth, made up of hunger and dreams.

2023 - 304 pages - 18 x 13 cm - MZN 895.25 (US$13.87) - ISBN: 978-989-9022-93-5

Text: Banhi BEPARI; Illustrations: Sabyasachi MISTRY

A Massive Clash in the Sundarbans! A tiger has attacked a deer. In the trial of the jungle cock and the crocodile, it was revealed that the tiger is not at fault. One by one, many animals including mosquitoes, monkeys, parrots, and tortoises were called. But at the end of the trial, it was seen that the biggest culprit is a foolish creature.

24 pages - 11 X 8,20 cm - ISBN: 978 984 97585 2 5

Reesham SHAHAB TIRTHO

A series of picture book showcased a journey of new parents.
Artist portrayed his new born daughter everyday activities in humorous drawings and illustrations in this book.

64 pages - 7 X 7 cm - ISBN: 978 984 81322 6 5
Language: Bengali

Text: Farzana TANNEE; Illustrations: Lamia AZAD, Shamim AHMED

Amidst the darkness, countless flickers spark curiosity in Aung. Are they ghosts? Taking his sister’s hand, he fearlessly sets out to find the friendly ghosts behind the glow. Let’s join their enchanting adventure!

20 pages - 6 X 6 cm - ISBN: 978 984 97861 6 0
Also available in Bengali

Vaso VEKRI

«Back street» is the first book of Vaso Vekri. A crime fiction novel. With heroes like human islands, moving in the transitions of life. The truth is not always what it seems. Or, rather, the truth is before us, but we do not see it. A love story beyond death unfolds in the book.
«They killed him at noon, on the street. They raked him in front of the crowd and nobody knows anything». A prisoner is murdered during one of his leaves. And his psychiatrist partner starts a journey with the motorbike, so she could see, remember, understand... What can the task assigned to her have to do with the murder? And how clean is the Professor of Psychiatry? How much does the infamous - inside and outside of prison - Black know? In a parallel coming-of-age journey, a young musician, struggling with his personal demons, will come face to face with dangerous secrets.

Chrysoula GEORGOULA

The book «Call me Stratos» is the first novel by Chrysoula Georgoula. Through the actions and memories of the main protagonist, Greece is described during the prosperity of the Olympic Games, but also after the economic crisis. Questions are posed such as: Are violence, discrimination and racism a consequence of the economic crisis or are they components of established social life, who find the opportunity to emerge on the occasion of the situation? Is a reversal of the tide possible, or will our society sooner or later be forced to relive its history?
After his dramatic divorce and at the age of forty-two, Stratos Achtidis returns to his family home to live with his mother and his also divorced brother. Humiliated and cut off from family and friends, he drinks uncontrollably and reminisces about the past: his construction work, his marriage to Sotiria and their children, the carefree years of fake wealth and parties, his extramarital affair and the end of it, the post-Olympic years of unemployment and his alcohol addiction, the privately owned Tsunami car wash and financial ruin, and finally his involvement with the «pure-blooded Greeks».

Georgia TATSI

Georgia Tatsi was born in 1952. She studied directing and worked at ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) from 1976 to 2003. She published short stories in collective volumes and literary magazines. Her book Dancing in glasses, in its first release was nominated for the Prize for Literature in the Short Story – Novellete category.
Alexander arrives in Malmo, Sweden. He cleans windows for a living, climbing the city’s towering glass buildings with a cage. A letter from Greece turns his teenage memories into hell and awakens his lust for revenge.
Tasos is a police officer in the Athens Security Services. The two men will meet in a dance of death, dancing in glasses. The first dancer leaves the ground, steps on the glasses to rise and…
The tragedy of History, the tragedy of individuality in its involvement with History.
“Dancing in glasses”, then years after its first edition, is being republished by Vakxikon Publications.

Aleksandar PROKOPIEV

Homunkulus: postmodern fairy tales for grownups
Homunculus is billed as a collection of sixteen “fairy tales for adults” with something for every reader. The author has largely retained the classical fairy-tale structure with its elements of surprise and the constant intertwining of the real and unreal, but he transcends the sugar-sweet endings we are familiar with. Prokopiev presents us with a wide range of more “mature” themes too – the erotic, the tragic, feelings of alienation. Some of the stories are related to internationally known fairy tales such as “Tom Thumb”, where the main character struggles with an oedipal bond with his mother, or “The Huntsman”, told from the perspective of the hunter sent out to kill Snow White. Others go back to Macedonian folk roots or have been freely composed by Prokopiev himself.

Aleksandar Prokopiev born on February 24, 1953 in Skopje is a Macedonian Ph. D. in comparative literature and literary theory. He is also notable as a writer, essayist and a former member of the eminent Yugoslav rock band Idoli.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is considered to be one of most acclaimed macedonian writers. He is two time nominated for prestigous literature award Balkanika.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of literature award Balkanika in 2012 for his novel Homunkulus. Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of Bulgarian literature award Helikon.
Finished postgraduate education in 1982 in Sorbonne, France. His works are translated in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and many other languages.

2011 - ISBN: 978-608-223-058-0

Ermis LAFAZANOVSKI

“Hrapeško”: novel about the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love
Hrapeško, an experienced wine-grower, lives somewhere in the region of Tikveš, at the time of the 19^th century. Until one day he leaves the epicentre of the Balkans and goes on his travels, to the West and to the East. Far away from home he learns a new profession and becomes famous. Humorous and serious at the same time the author tells of Hrapeško’s fortunes and mishaps, of the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love, of the homeland and foreign countries.

PhD Ermis Lafazanovski is a short-stories writer, literary essays, and anthropology studies writer. In 2001 he received the ‘Stale Popov’ Award of the Macedonian Writers’ Association for the novel “Portrayer”, and in 2003 he received Prose Masters for the novel The Novel About Weapons. His novel Hrapeško was nominated in 2006 as the Macedonian representative for the Balkanika Award. He is a member of the Writers’ Association of Macedonia. He was president of the Macedonian PEN Center (2014-2017).

2006 - ISBN: 9989-144-82-6

Branislav NIKOLOV (artistic name: Drunken NIGHTINGALE)

Polygraph is the third poetry book by Branislav NIkolov (Drunken Nightingale).
Branislav Nikolov is one of the most original poetry voices in North Macedonia.
As Macedonian writer and critic, Olivera Kjorveziroska says, Branislav Nikolov’s poetry is “…an impressive «erotomaniac» collection of poems that is in figth with the current loveless times, communicating with the most beautiful poetic tradition in our region”.
Several of his poems are texts of the songs performed by the most famous art band in North Macedonia, Foltin, where Nikolov is the singer.

Pijan Slavej (aka Branislav Nikolov) is a renowned musician, performer, songwriter, poet, singer and frontman of the group Foltin. He was born in 1971 in Bitola. As one of the founders and key members of the band, he has nine studio releases, as well as music for over thirty theatrical performances and several documentary and feature films, including the Oscar nominee “Honeyland”, the internationally acclaimed “Secret Ingredient”, “Avec L’Amour”, “Cash & Marry” etc. He has performed in Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Montenegro, England, Lebanon, Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey and Czech Republic. Nikolov has received many recognitions and awards for his creative work. He is, without a doubt, one of the most original and charismatic individuals on Macedonian music scene today, known for his spontaneous, explosive, warm and passionate live performances. Apart from his work with Foltin, he has performed with Macedonian Philharmonic and has two poetry books published. Pijan Slavej is his first solo outing in music and poetry.

2022 - ISBN: 978-608-256-118-9

Emmanuel DERILUS

Ce tout premier roman d’Emmanuel Dérilus a paru en novembre 2021, dans la collection « Fiction EGL », aux Éditions Gouttes-Lettres, raconte l’histoire de la tournée de l’écrivain communiste Jacques Stephen Alexis à Moscou, (à Paris), en Chine et à la Havane, puis sa disparition (à son retour en Haïti) en avril 61, au Môle Saint-Nicolas, dans des circonstances jusqu’ici non élucidées.

• Le roman, dont le récit s’étend sur la fin année 1960 jusqu’à l’été 1961 et s’inspirant des hypothèses avancées sur sa disparition, montre comment les services secrets (américains, français et Haïtiens) traquent Jacques Stephen Alexis et sa délégation depuis Moscou jusqu’au Môle Saint Nicolas où ils disparaissent. Ce grand roman historique nous fait revivre nombre d’événements importants qui ont marqué l’histoire mondiale, tels la Révolte de Budapest en 1956, l’Invasion de la baie des cochons, en Avril 1961, ou les événements en Colombie et au Venezuela entre 1948 et 1961, le Congrès des 81 partis communiste à Moscou auquel a participé Jacques, ou encore la grève des étudiants de L’UNEH de 1960, enfin les décrets répressifs de François Duvalier des années 1960 - 1961.
• La trame tient compte de la conjoncture de l’époque marquée par les rivalités est-ouest pendant la Guerre Froide entre Kennedy et Khrouchtchev ; le jeu des services secrets dans la lutte contre le communisme - la CIA, le SD, les services secrets Français et Dominicains (intrigues, coups bas, intérêts géopolitiques) ; la grève des étudiants du début des années 1960 ; les luttes syndicales en Haïti en 1960 ; les luttes paysannes avec un leader paysan du nom de Sidieuveut sur fond de conflit entre la grande et la petite propriété foncière (deux schémas de développement agricole mis en perspective) et enfin ; la grande répression des années 60 contre toute opposition avec la bénédiction de Washington engagé dans la guerre froide et la lutte contre le communisme.

Emmanuel Dérilus
Né à Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite, le 24 décembre 1959, Emmanuel Dérilus est diplômé en Droit à la Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Économiques de Port-au-Prince. Il a également suivi des cours à l’École Normale Supérieure, en Science de l’Éducation au CEFOSED et en Communication à l’Institut Supérieur de Journalisme et de Communication à Port-au-Prince. Ancien professeur de Littérature haïtienne, d’Histoire et de Géographie, il fut membre du Parti du Congrès National des Mouvements Démocratiques, le CONACOM. Élu député au Parlement haïtien en 1995, Emmanuel Dérilus militait au sein du Bloc parlementaire anti-néolibéral où il œuvrait à l’unité de la gauche démocratique en Haïti.

2021 - 608 pages - 13,97 X 27,94 cm - 28 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-970-2-6

Dom Pedro N. THEONEY

Ce premier roman de Dom Pedro N. THEONEY est un roman philosophique. Un assez vieux problème, qui est le cœur du cœur de la culture (tradition philosophique) occidentale, y est posé : la dualité de l’ÂME et du CORPS. Quelle philosophie, depuis Platon, ne s’y est pas intéressée ? Aucune, naturellement. Car toute philosophie véritable commence forcément avec elle, y trouve pour mieux se déployer un point auquel se fixer, qu’elle ne fera bien entendu que renouveler, certes sous un mode (souvent) tout à fait singulier ou original... Et Dom Pedro N. THEONEY, plus dans la lignée d’un Spinoza ou d’un Nietzsche, entre autres, que d’un Épicure, résout ce problème en démontant ce dualisme philosophique traditionnel, qui projette une image erronée de l’homme, du monde ou de toutes choses. Et propose à la place une espèce de monisme philosophique, qui postule d’entrée de jeu que le principe du monde ou de toutes choses est nécessairement matériel, ceux-ci en eux-mêmes n’étant que MATIÈRE. À étendre davantage cette pensée, l’on ne peut éviter de conclure avec Dom Pedro que l’homme n’est que corps. Aussi, disparaissent, toutes à la fois, les histoires et élucubrations sur l’âme, son immortalité et tout ce qui en découle... L’auteur condense tout cela dans un magnifique récit d’aventures érotiques, où la chair, le corps et les plaisirs qu’ils procurent sont mis en avant, valorisés et traités bien entendu pour ce que, tous ensemble, ils constituent : le principe pouvant aider à découvrir la vérité sur/de l’homme...

(Dom) Pedro Naason Theoney est né le 04 novembre 1986, à Port-au-Prince (Delmas). Au bout de ses études secondaires au lycée Pierre Eustache Daniel Fignolé, il est entré en 2009 à l’École Normale Supérieure de Port-au-Prince où il a eu une importante formation en philosophie. En 2013, il est admis au programme de Master de Philosophie Paris8/ENS. Mais il ne le bouclera pas, en raison de maintes et maintes pressions de la vie (haïtiennes)… Depuis quelques années, il enseigne la philosophie dans certaines écoles à Port-au-Prince. En 2014, il a fondé les Éditions Gouttes-Lettres, une maison d’édition généraliste au service des communautés d’intellectuel.les, de créateurs/trices et de lecteurs.trices, haïtiennes, voire du monde entier. Entre 2018 et 2019, il a publié ses deux premiers livres, «Les délices de la chair», qui est un roman philosophique, et un long poème (pro)féministe, intitulé «Hymne à la femme». Donc depuis son entrée à l’E.N.S., les livres, l’écriture, l’édition, et bien sur sa famille, constituent ce qu’il appelle sa raison de vivre.

2018 - 178 pages - 12,7 X 19,5 cm - 15 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-482-3-3

Jean-Jacques CADET

Cet essai met en relation l’émergence des marxismes non occidentaux et la publication dans les années 1930 d’un ensemble d’œuvres de Marx qui ont mis au premier plan le thème de la dépossession et de l’aliénation. L’objectif consiste à expliquer la prédominance de la problématisation de l’aliénation dans le monde noir en se référant aux thèses développées dans les Manuscrits de 1844. La publication intégrale de ces Manuscrits axés sur une théorie de l’aliénation permet aux intellectuels du sud de reformuler au prisme d’éléments psychologiques (et culturels) leurs marxismes. Ainsi, cet essai postule que l’appropriation haïtienne des œuvres de Marx et d’Engels est ancrée dans une relecture originale de la catégorie d’aliénation. Le titre Marxisme et aliénation opte pour ce croisement entre les marxismes du sud et la problématique de dépossession. Le couple « marxisme et aliénation » permet de saisir le mode de conceptualisation de ces marxismes non occidentaux, notamment du marxisme haïtien. La pensée de Marx reste un chantier à retravailler au regard des expériences singulières et de « territoires » différents. Faire de l’aliénation l’axe central de l’analyse des marxismes du Sud se justifie par l’importance du colonialisme, de l’esclavage et du racisme dans l’histoire des Caraïbes.

2021 - 264 pages - 13,97 X 27,94 cm - 30 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-970-4-0

Jean Fritz Junior ODNE (Haïti, auteur) ; Francisco SILVA (Haïti, illustrateur)

Sur l’île, les embouteillages sont devenus le lieu où il faut prendre son mal en patience, ou être vu. Chacun s’y trouve coincé sans savoir pourquoi, et finit par s’y précipiter le matin pour s’y donner en spectacle ou rencontrer du monde, dans une ambiance conviviale, joyeuse et bon enfant.
Mais un beau jour, pas d’embouteillage, aucune voiture sur la route… Pour Alice et Jacob, l’enquête commence…

2022 - 56 pages - 16 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-6-6
Album de bandes dessinées en français – à partir de 9 ans

RENATA (autrice) ; Wilfried DEROCHE (illustrateur)

Bébé Nikou a tellement faim qu’il est prêt à dévorer son livre préféré ! Mais son papa va le rassasier avec de bons fruits frais et juteux ! Un joli album quadrilingue, qui favorisera l’éveil linguistique et l’éducation nutritionnelle des plus petits, grâce à la découverte des fruits des Antilles.
Utilisable de la crèche à la fin du cycle 1 en :

• Langue
• Découverte du monde
• Education nutritionnelle
  Également pour les apprenants débutants en langues étrangères ou pour les publics porteurs de déficiences.

2021 - 20 pages - 15 X 15 cm - 10,50 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-5-9
Album jeunesse tout-carton quadrilingue français, créole de Martinique, espagnol et anglais - à partir de 1 an

RENATA (autrice et illustratrice)

Un animal se cache derrière chaque lettre ! Avec cet abécédaire original, les enfants connaîtront aussi bien l’alphabet que les animaux de la Caraïbe.

Utilisable avec :

• les élèves en difficulté d’apprentissage de la lecture (SEGPA, par exemple), pour aborder l’alphabet sous un angle ludique et en lien avec d’autres matières, SVT et Arts plastiques notamment
• les personnes porteuses de handicap et/ou de troubles cognitifs (personnes âgées notamment), pour entretenir les capacités de mémorisation et l’imagination.

2018 - 64 pages - 17 X 24 cm - 15 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-0-4 -
à partir de 3 ans

Samad BEHRANGI - Translated to German by B. BINIAZ

Asad SEIF

Asaf SEIF (born in 1957 in Bandar Anzali) is an Iranian writer and researcher. He has been living in Europe since 1984 and is engaged in literary and cultural activities. He is a member of Iranian writers in exile association and was a member of its board of editors for one term. He has published numerous articles and studies in the field of social analysis and literary criticism. His latest study on “Love in fiction by Iranian writers in exile” is published by Forough Publications.

14 euros - ISBN: 978-3-943147-10-0

Aramesh DOSTDAR

Aramesh DOSTDAR (born in 1932 in Tehran) is an Iranian philosopher, writer, scholar and a former philosophy lecturer at Tehran University. He moved to Germany in 1958 to study philosophy in University of Bonn. From 1973 to 1980 he taught philosophy in the University of Tehran, until his dissmision during closure of universities by the Islamic government in the so called Cultural Revolution. Aramesh Dustdar who is currently living in Germany, is probably one of the few Iranian philosophers in the western meaning of the word. He is known for both complexity of the language but clarity and precision of ideas expressed. .
Four of his books have been published in Persian, 2 of them “Dark Luminosities” and “The Hidden Kinship” by Forough Publications.
He is uncompromising on controversial and sensitive issues such as incompatibility between Islam and democracy or the situation of intellectuals in the Muslim world, as, in his view, a real, Western type intellectual can not be tolerated in any Muslim society.
The murders of political and intellectual dissidents and opponents in the Islamic Republic of Iran are a «brilliant» example of that antagonism between Islam and democracy, he points out.

443 pages - 22 euros - ISBN: 978-3-943147-09-4

Michael SOMMER
Translated from German by Dr. 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

Wahiba KHIARI

Ce roman est dédié aux jeunes filles enlevées, violées, tuées, durant la décennie noire (les années 90) en Algérie ; à celles qui ont eu à subir un « mariage de jouissance », mariées de force à leur geôlier, souvent mises enceintes. Ces filles si nombreuses, à qui le gouvernement algérien demande, à travers sa politique de « réconciliation nationale » de pardonner l’insupportable, se sont tues et ont ravalé leur honte.
Tandis que résonne le cri de l’une d’elles, subissant l’horreur, la narratrice raconte sa culpabilité d’avoir choisi l’exil et trouvé le bonheur. Un récit fort et direct, où alternent deux voix de femmes qui prennent la parole, tel un devoir de mémoire, pour ne pas oublier toutes les autres.

Wahiba Khiari est née à Alger en 1969. Après des études de langues à l’université de Constantine, elle enseigne l’anglais dans un lycée. En 1997, alors qu’elle vient d’être titularisée après avoir obtenu son CAPES, elle quitte une Algérie en proie à la violence et s’installe en Tunisie. A Tunis, elle s’inscrit dans un atelier d’écriture, puis devient responsable du rayon littérature dans une grande librairie. Aujourd’hui mariée et maman de deux enfants, elle s’occupe de la communication de cette même librairie. Nos Silences est son premier roman.

2009 ; 128 pages ; 11 x 19 cm ; 11 DT ;
ISBN : 978-9973-58-018-4
Roman

Tahar BEKRI

Le 27 décembre 2008, l’armée israélienne déclare la guerre à Gaza. Meurtri, le poète Tahar Bekri note au jour le jour son indignation, échange via Internet avec des intellectuels de toutes origines, dénonce les projets expansionnistes, l’indifférence internationale, ou presque.

Peu après, au mois de mars, il est invité à Ramallah, Naplouse, Jérusalem-Est et Bir Zeit pour un cycle de lectures. Confronté à la réalité de la vie en Palestine occupée, il nous restitue minutieusement son voyage, ses rencontres, ses impressions où affleurent colère et émotion.

Poète né en 1951 à Gabès, en Tunisie, Tahar Bekri écrit en français et en arabe. Il a publié une vingtaine d’ouvrages (poésie, essais, livres d’art). Son œuvre est traduite dans différentes langues. Il vit à Paris où il est maître de conférences à l’université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre.

2010 ; 156 pages ; 12 x 20,5 cm ; 12,900 DT ; ISBN : 978-9973-58-027-6
Récit

Théo ANANISSOH, Hélène GAUDY, Frank SECKA, Claude RIZZO, Azza FILALI

Cinq écrivains, du Togo, de Tunisie, de France, réunis autour d’un mot : adolescence. Partis à la découverte des jeunes, ils abordent des sujets fondamentaux encore tabous au Maghreb : la virginité, l’homosexualité, le port du voile, la religion, les codes sociaux, la perspective de l’immigration. Chacun livre sa propre lecture du pays et, du récit de voyage au roman, voire au conte, nous mène aux frontières intimes de ce « passage » qu’est l’adolescence.

2009 ; 384 pages ; 12 x 20,5 cm ; 15,500 DT ; ISBN : 978-9973-58-016-0
Nouvelles

Stefania CAMPO

This book shows Andrea Camilleri’s gastronomic perspective, expressed through
his most famous character – Montalbano, who is greedy and always starving. This
becomes the occasion to offer a tasty choice of traditional Sicilian dishes, with an
important contribution from Camilleri’s family memories.
In fact, food is often present in his stories, acquiring a strong affective value,
symbolizing maternal love. And this passion is shared by the fictional
superintendent: food is the fundamental object of desire and the most striking
source of pleasure.
The author seems to lead the reader to silently sit and calmly savour these
wonderful dishes.

Stefania Campo is an architect and is specialised in photography and digital
cinema; she works also as a teacher She lives partly in Milan and partly in Ragusa,
where she promotes an association called “Sicilian Movietour”, which offers cultural
and gastronomic routes inspired by literature and cinema.

2009 - 160 pages - 14 x 18 cm - 10 € - ISBN 978-88-95177-47-2

Franco DE LUCA

This book helps new parents in acquiring certainty and confidence while attending to their growing
kids.
As children’s problems are more and more often faced through drugs, the author tries to offer a critical
point of view in considering this kind of solutions, which are frequently source of collateral damages.
So, this work suggest some recipes of home made preparations and foods that can resolve non serious
children’s pathologies.

Franco De Luca has been a paediatrician for the Family Advice Bureau of Campagnano di Roma; he
is now the manager of the operative unit for “Preventive Medicine of Evolutionary Age”.

2009 - 150 pages - 13,5 x 22 cm - 14 € - ISBN 978-88-95177-42-7

Sara HONNEGGER

Among the questions and the problems that the birth of a baby arises, certainly there is the aspect of
nutrition and choice of food: in particular, during the first months of a new baby’s life attention to
products becomes fundamental.
This maternal experience can lead to two innovative results: learning an ecological approach to the
world around us and facing an educational path to the appreciation of diversity.
The author confronts the problems of children’s nutrition from this particular point of view: this book
offers recipes, memories, suggestions from mothers of many different cultures, about breast milk,
family meals, first baby food and culinary games.
In conclusion, this is an intercultural reflection about feeding: healthy food for us and Earth balance.

Sara Honnegger published several works about babies’ nutrition and education (for example Piccoli
Golosi), but also about ecological feeding (for example Cucina naturale and La cucina facile ed ecologica). She
collaborates with many magazines as «Donna moderna», «Star Bene», «Marie Claire», "La cucina
naturale«,»D La Repubblica delle Donne«, the Sunday edition of»Il Sole 24 Ore", writing about
natural medicine, female health, natural feeding.

2008 - 144 pages - 15 x 21 cm - 14 € - ISBN: 978-88-95177-40-3

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

Dr. 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 20^th 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