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Derrière la DGSN, Yaoundé – Nlongkak
B.P. 14268 - Yaoundé
Cameroon
Tél: +237 677 39 62 80
www.editionsakomamba.com
Founded in 1995, Akoma Mba publishers is the oldest publishing house specialised in illustrated comic books in Central Africa. Their main objective is to promote Africa through innovative editorial content as well as African, universal values to young children. They have a catalogue of about a hundred titles, published in several languages (French, English, and local languages).
Akoma Mba distributes its books in Cameroon and internationally. Its authors come from Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, France, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Togo, amongst others. Initially part of the association AILE Cameroon, it was taken over in 2018 by Robert Nkouamou, a Cameroonian cultural entrepreneur aiming to support new talents for the development of readership on the continent.
Several books published by Akoma Mba were awarded internationally, including the International Library of Munich, UNICEF in Dakar, and IBBY International. Magoulina by Joël Eboueme Bognomo won the Honorary Prize for Youth Literature with the American publisher Boyds Mills Press.
Akoma Mba participates in international book fairs and events: Bologna in Italy, Montreuil and Paris in France, FIBDA in Algeria, Frankfurt in Germany, Casablanca in Morocco, Fildak in Dakar...
The publishing house organises a Youth Book Fair in the city of Yaoundé (SALIJEY) and recently launched an African Prize for Comics and the “Marie Wabbes” Grand Prize for Children’s Books, named after the Belgian writer who initiated the Akoma Mba project in the 1990s. It is directed since January 2020 by Ulrich Talla Wamba, writer, book and publishing professional.
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Ed.AkomaMba/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ed_AkomaMba
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ed.akomamba/
Mani LI (Cameroun), auteur ; Georges PONDY (Cameroun), illustrateur
Depuis la disparition de son père, Noah n’aime plus lire. Un jour, il est aspiré mystiquement au fond d’un livre qu’il avait donné à manger à son chien. C’est le début d’une belle aventure dans Il était une fois, le pays des contes de fées. Découvrez les aventures d’un petit garçon qui n’aime pas les livres, mais qui doit retrouver et sauver son père en parcourant plusieurs histoires dans le bouquin magique.
Illustrations : 2D réaliste
2021 - 68 pages - 21 X 29,7 cm - 10 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789956101917
Aude PERALTA EXCOFFIER (France), autrice ; Edji ONABEL (Cameroun), illustrateur
Ce matin-là, tout semble paisible. Pourtant, cette quiétude va bientôt être troublée. Le chef Tabot s’installe sereinement et improvise une visite aux parents de Yoaddan, Eseck et Muslimah. Chef autoritaire, il a déjà dix épouses. Ébloui par la beauté de Yoaddan, il se marie avec elle sans aucune épreuve. Mais la jeune femme ne l’aime pas et noue secrètement une relation amoureuse avec un autre. Que se passe-t-il ensuite ?
Illustrations : 2D très réaliste
Critique : https://frankfurtrights.com/Books/Details/the-magic-coconut-tree-19001831
2021 - 52 pages - 21 X 14 cm - 4 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789956101771
Simon de SAINT-DZOKOTOE (Togo), auteur ; Maryse MONTRON (France), illustratrice
La petite Ayélévi est très rusée. Elle gagne toujours le jeu “Qui trouvera la plus jolie fleur”. Cette situation intrigue son frère qui veut comprendre le secret de son succès permanent. Ayélévi est très sage. Le sera-t-elle encore longtemps ?
Illustrations : aquarelle
Critique : https://takamtikou.bnf.fr/bibliographies/notices/afrique/le-secret-d-ayelevi
2020 - 32 pages - 14,5 x 20 cm - 3 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789789561414
Contact : Ulrich TALLA WAMBA
Rotterdam
Netherlands
www.denabooks.com
Dena is publishing books whose authors are in exile, or books that were not allowed to be published in Iran due to censorship.
Despite the limited publication of the books, Dena as the only Persian-language bookseller in the Netherlands, plays a significant role in the availability of Persian books for Iranians living in the Netherlands.
Nasim KHAKSAR
This collection includes nineteen short stories written by Nasim Khaksar between 2001 and 2014.
The title of the book is taken from the name of one of the stories that Nasim wrote fourteen years after the massacre of political prisoners in 1967 in memory of the victims of this massacre.
Mehdi YAHYAWI
The collection of short stories “A Butterfly Under the Rain” written by Mehdi Yahyawi was published in the spring of 2019 by Dena Publishing in Rotterdam.
Dimitri VERHULST
Dimitri Verhulst presents the history of mankind in less than two hundred pages, in a big bang of language. From the moment we crawled out of the water and started walking on two legs to the years when we bombed each other to the other world. A story with a main character in which you will no doubt recognize yourself every now and then.
Contact : Reza CHAVOUSHI
Čechova 23
Praha 7 Bubeneč 170 00
Czech Republic
www.by-wo-men.com
The small independent wo-men publishing is oriented toward gender-focused art documentary books. The publishing house was established in 2012 by a literary documentarian Barbora Baronová to create books ambitious both in content and design. The main aim of wo-men publishing is to share high quality literary and photographic non-fiction projects created by Czech authors. Mostly, the books by wo-men include voices of marginalized people, such as women, seniors, people with disabilities, and cover non-mainstream topics, such as feminism, aging, activism, parenthood, and environment. The books published by wo-men are printed in low numbers (sometimes as limited editions) on high-quality ecological papers in local printing companies. Many books by wo-men were awarded in the Czech Republic, as well as abroad.
Barbora BARONOVÁ, Dita PEPE
The stylized artistic literary and photographic documentary project Intimacy opens up important personal and social issues in women’s lives, such as disability, prostitution, depression, cancer, and dying. Individuals are often unable to respond to these topics in direct confrontation other than with stereotypes and prejudices. Intimacy seeks to describe some habitual patterns of behaviour and demonstrate their real content through the stories of six specific women. The book-object contains one book of text and six photographic notebooks with flaps and coated embossed motifs. The book got the highest Czech award Magnesia Litera for the publishing achievement and received the 2nd place within Fine-press and Artist´s Books Category in The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2015. The book was also shortlisted for the Les Prix du Livre – Prix Photo-Texte at Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles 2016 in France and at the 28th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2018 in the Czech Republic.
2015 - 588 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-905239-3-7
Price: 698 CZK
Published in Czech only
Barbora BARONOVÁ; Dita PEPE
The publication Voices of Women: Australia brings twenty-two narratives of prominent Australian women artists, writers, filmmakers, activists, photographers, scientists, politicians, and journalists, exploring themes inherent in women regardless of their different cultures, such as their status, career options, and the expectations placed on them. The book is based on interviews recorded during Barbora’s research stay at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in 2017. Among the people telling their stories is prominent feminist Anne Summers, who describes her own abortion as one of the moments that initiated her activism. Anthropology professor Diane Bell tells the story of a struggle for respect for women in science. Alison Whittaker’s story is the tale of a young Australian lesbian poet’s journey from rural communities to Harvard Law. Publisher Susan Hawthorne thematises her transition from an employee at the global publishing house Penguin to a publisher of non-mainstream titles. The story of Olga Horak and Halina Robinson reflects the topic of the Holocaust – while Olga survived five concentration camps, Halina was thrown over the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto and was on the run from the Nazis for eighteen months. Barbora Baronova and Dita Pepe’s documentary book on Australia is part of a free-form literary and photographic series, Voices of Women, in which the authors explore the lives of contemporary women from diverse parts of the world.
2021 - 522 pages - 17 X 24 cm - price: 1 390 CZK
Published in English and Czech
Dita PEPE et al.
Borders of Love is a photographic and literary book from internationally renowned Czech photographer Dita Pepe that in thirteen chapters investigates the borders of love, trauma as motivation to create art, and photography as therapy. In this publication, which is also the creative part of her doctoral thesis at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Dita combines an artistic approach with scientific research. She worked on the publication with many interesting artists and researchers as well as people who analyzed the topic from purely personal perspectives and experiences. Besides photos, the book contains dozens of texts in many forms – interviews, reports, personal diaries, letters, short stories, essays, passages from lectures, and specialized texts through which Dita together with invited guests look at various forms of love. These are interlaced with her photos – self-portraits, archival family photos, stylized portraits, photo collages, documentary photos, still lifes… The photographic part of the book typically involves an almost obsessive examination and repetition of motifs with the same form and content to strengthen the feeling of order and clarity the author would like in her life. The book is being published in a small printing of 700 in a Czech–English version as a cooperation between wo-men publishing and Tomas Bata University in Zlín.
2021 - 804 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-907641-5-6
Price: 1 590 CZK
Published in English and Czech
Contact : Barbora BARONOVÁ
c/ Amparo 76
28012 Madrid
Spain
www.laovejaroja.es
It was chance combined with great effort that led to the launch of La Oveja Roja. As chance would have it, someone with no plans to work in the publishing industry found themselves in the possession of several previously unpublished books. He founded La Oveja Roja, located, as its name [the red sheep] might suggest, deep in the countryside, in a meadow at the foot of the Pyrenees. The founder was adamant about ensuring that culture was accessible to all children and not only to the upper classes. This sheep insisted on talking about politics and society even though no one had invited him to the table. Notable figures, of course, did not listen. But he continued anyway. From the Pyrenees he went to Madrid, where he found himself becoming a carpenter in order to open a bookshop. From that moment on, he has lived only for his obsessions, which now include storytelling, poetry, graphic novels, essays and even children’s books. His catalogue contains works of a variety of tones. Éric Hazan, Nathalie Quintane, Vincianne Despret, Brigitte Vasallo, Enrique Falcón and Antonio Orihuela are just some of the names who have become friends along the way. And the sheep, with his books, now finds himself surrounded by wooden bookshelves in a bookshop, and continues to think and dream about meadows and about books.
Contact : Alfonso SERRANO
United Kingdom
www.nogaam.com
Nogaam Publishing, based in London, uses crowdfunding to publish Iranian censored authors. Nogaam publishes books that could not be published inside Iran due to censorship as free e-books.
Nogaam supports and empowers Iranian authors, advocates freedom of speech, promotes Persian-language digital publishing and provides easy access to invaluable Farsi books. Nogaam is also the founder of ’Tehran Book Fair, Uncensored’ which is an annual book fair by independent Iranian publishers abroad.
Twitter/Instagram: @Nogaambooks
Listen the interview of Azadeh Parsapour, about the Tehran Book Fair, Uncensored (May 9, 2021)
James JOYCE; trad. Dr Akram PEDRAMNIA
This is for the first time that James Joyce’s masterpiece is being published in Persian uncensored. This project, translated and written by Dr Akram Pedramnia, is a combination of research and translation presented in six volumes supported by Literature Ireland.
Specifications of Vol.1 (to be published in 6 volumes)
2019 - 570 pages - ISBN: 978-1-909641-42-6 -
Hardcover/Paperback
16 short stories by 16 writers about the catastrophic events of the calendar year 1398 (2019-2020) in Iran. Mass protests over the rise of oil price in Iran and the brutal crackdown of the protests by the Iranian regime. Ukrainian Flight 752 was shot by Iran and all 176 passengers - mostly Iranians- and crew were killed, Covid-19, etc.
2021 - 130 pages - ISBN: 978-1-909641-59-4 -
Paperback
Karim POURHAMZAVI
Comprehending the rise of Jihadism and ISIS
The first ever original research work about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Persian by Karim Pourhamzavi.
First published in 2016 by Nogaam.
The second edition published in 2020.
166 pages - ISBN: 978-1-909641-50-1
Paperback
Contact : Azadeh PARSAPOUR
Av. Augusto Meyer 163/605
Porto Alegre (RS) - CEP 90550-110
Brazil
Tél: +55 51 3024-0787
www.dublinense.com.br
Dublinense is an independent publishing house focused mainly on literary fiction, with the vast majority of its list formed by contemporary fiction, a few very singular contemporary non-fiction narratives and essays and a small collection of psychoanalysis. Our focus is to present the best in contemporary Brazilian literary fiction along with relevant works that can present different cultures and singular approaches and points of view for the Brazilian readership. Our goal is to start conversations on relevant subjects through good literature. During our 12 years, our original titles have received important recognitions such as Prêmio Jabuti, Prêmio Açorianos, Prêmio da Biblioteca Nacional and are constantly shortlisted for other literary awards too. Our international titles were also distinguished with important awards such as Prêmio José Saramago, European Union Prize for Literature, among others.
Natália BORGES POLESSO
Vencedor do Prêmio Jabuti
Vencedor do Prêmio Açorianos
Vencedor do Prêmio AGES (Associação Gaúcha de Escritores)
Seria pouco dizer que os contos de Amora versam sobre relações homossexuais entre mulheres. Também estão aqui o maravilhamento, o estupor e o medo das descobertas. O encontro consigo mesmo, sobretudo quando ele ocorre fora dos padrões, pode trazer desafios ou tornar impossível seguir sem transformação. É necessário avançar, explorar o desconhecido, desestabilizar as estruturas para chegar, enfim, ao sossego de quem vive com honestidade.
2015 - 256 pages - ISBN: 9788561249564 - R$ 54,90 - Literatura brasileira / Contos
Cristina JUDAR
Ana e Joan. A primeira é diurna e contemporânea, bombardeada pelo consumismo e por pressões estéticas e comportamentais. A segunda é noturna, influenciada por noções de ancestralidade, ritos de passagem e intuições do inconsciente. Ambas estão prestes a completar dezoito anos e acompanhamos suas histórias em paralelo, mês a mês, até a data de seus aniversários. Mas não se engane: mais do que o relato da jornada de duas jovens mulheres, Elas marchavam sob o sol é um romance sobre violência, perseguição religiosa, perda de liberdade e direitos, além de ser um libelo sobre a necessidade dos ritos, dos sonhos e da ressignificação dos corpos, questionando papéis sociais através da linguagem vibrante e singular de sua autora.
2021 - 160 pages - ISBN: 978-65-5553-031-5 - R$ 44,90 - Literatura brasileira / Romance
Henrique SCHNEIDER
Vencedor do Prêmio Paraná de Literatura
Raul é um bancário dedicado, um cidadão de bem levando uma vida tranquila em junho de 1970: destina todas as suas energias ao trabalho e a política não lhe interessa. Até que um dia, em meio ao clima de euforia patriótica às vésperas da final da Copa do Mundo, ele é confundido com um militante, preso e atirado em uma cela para confessar algo que não sabe. A partir daí, o jogo vira, e ele passa a viver o que de mais terrível aconteceu no Brasil nos anos de chumbo.
2019 - 152 pages - ISBN: 9788561249700 - R$ 39,90 - Literatura brasileira / Romance
Contact : Gustavo FARAON
Zemoriya 25, bajo
20013 Donostia-San Sebastián
Spain
Tél: (+34) 943 292 349
www.editoreak.eus
Contact : Ana URRESTARAZU
Navarra
Spain
www.editargi.com/es
The Association of Independent Publishers of Navarre - Nafar Editore Independiente en Elkartea (Editargi) is made up of publishers who are not dependent on large groups or public institutions, and whose main economic activity is the publishing and sale of books. Their objectives include the promotion of books as a cultural medium with specific needs; the creation and strengthening of companies and industries in Navarre that work in the field of book creation, publishing, distribution and dissemination; the promotion of the implementation of policies to support books, their local industries, bibliodiversity and reading in general with the public authorities; and the defence and promotion of the cultural and linguistic diversity of Navarre.
Contact : Aritz OTAZU LUJANBIO
Egypt
www.daraltanweer.com
Dar Altanweer is a company with offices in Beirut, Cairo, and Tunis. Overall strategy is coordinated between the three offices. The company has been publishing philosophical and literary classics and contemporary works since 1982. In 2012 was sold to a group of seasoned publishers who partnered in restructuring and relaunching the company in each location.
Since 2012, Dar Altanweer has expanded its geographical and genre breadth and strengthened its quality and marketing depth. Select titles are printed in three countries thereby providing for more efficient distribution and marketing. Expanded genres include classical, modern, and contemporary literary fiction, commercial fiction, philosophy for beginners, self-help, popular science, sociology/political science and graphical novels.
Contact : Sherif Joseph RIZK
Syria
Tél: +00971557195187
marwan@mamdouhadwan.net
The Publishing house, founded in Damascus in (2005), was established in honour of the late Syrian writer Mamdouh Adwan (1941-2004), who wrote more than ninety publications in poetry, drama, novel and different translations. Our publishing house came as a realization of his dream to establish a publishing house that provides a platform for new writers and translators.
Hence, the publishing house is first and foremost dedicated to publishing distinct literary and intellectual books of new writers and translators whose works would enrich the Arabic library.
Drawing on its awareness of the importance of revitalizing the cultural life and raising awareness on the different forms of cultural achievements and their huge impact on the formation of intellectual awareness in Arab societies; the publishing house is keen to publish important Arab literary works which are no longer available in the markets, and to provide accurate translations and revised versions for books of international writers.
The publishing house ceased its operations between 2012 and 2014 due to the compelling circumstances witnessed by Syria. However, it resumed its work by the end of 2014, and currently has more than 250 titles including: poetry, drama, intellectual and literary studies, short stories, and novels of writers from different Arab countries, as well as translations from English, French, Spanish, Swedish, and German.
In Sharjah Book fair 2016 the publishing house was awarded as Best Arabic Publishing House 2016.
Khalifa Al KHUDER
Khalifa Al-Khader, winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press 2017, writes some scenes of fear in the details of his experience in ISIS prisons in the city of al-Bab, his escape from prison, and his return to him later after ISIS was expelled from the city.
Khalifa does not tell us about ISIS from outside, he stayed inside the monster, and went out to narrate some of what he saw, heard, and lived...
Khalifa Al KHUDER is a Syrian photographer, journalist and writer, winner of the Samir kassir Award in Opinion Article category 2017.
152 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-39-5
Fiction
Mamdouh ADWAN
The world of organized and random oppression that a person lives in this age, is a world that is neither suitable for man nor for the growth of his humanity. Rather, it is a world that cultivates the “animality” of man (i.e. turning him into an animal). The writer deals with this topic like a researcher, but with the mentality, the temperament and the style of a writer. He is not going to propose another theory or refute another.
Our perception of the human being that we should be is not impossible to achieve, even if it comes from a literary or artistic conception. But this perception makes us, “when we see the reality in which we live”, feel the size of our losses during our human journey, which are cumulative and continuous losses as long as the world of oppression and humiliation exists and continues. And we will end up becoming creatures of another type whose name was “man”, or aspired to be a human being, without changing form.
Mamdouh ADWAN was a prolific Syrian writer, poet, playwright and critic. He published his first collection of poetry in 1967 then he published 18 further collections. He has also published 2 novels, 25 plays, translated 23 books from English including the Iliad, the Odyssey and a biography of George Orwell. and Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis, he wrote a number of TV series. He wrote regularly on Arab current affairs, he also taught at the Advanced Institute for Theater in Damascus.
288 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-06-7
Non-fiction
Mamdouh AZZAM
After twenty years of work, Salem finishes his service in the gendarme’s cavalry and returns to his home and family in Deir al-Qarn, bringing with him the only companion who has stayed with him for all those years: his horse. Family members have mixed feelings towards this guest, who will now be part of the family. The storytelling chains take place between the five children and the mother, and as they rotate, they weave stories and build worlds. In this novel, Mamdouh Azzam writes, in a new and different way from his previous novels, a tale about a simple family living its tranquility and fear, its surrender and rejection, its peace and struggles, to move within us endless questions and reflections, while freedom writes in its broad sense the chapter of the end.
Mamdouh AZZAM is a Syrian novelist. His most celebrated and controversial novel is The Palace of Rain, a powerful and daring treatment of taboos in the conservative Druze religion and community. His novel Ascension to Death was translated into English and French. And was adapted into an acclaimed film in 1995.
256 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-75-3
Fiction
Contact : Marwan ADWAN
Apartado de Correos, 133
38280 Tegueste
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Islas Canarias
Spain
Tél: (+34) 922 27 95 97 / 646 151 141
www.bailedelsol.org
Baile del Sol is a publishing house located on the Canary Islands, off the coast of the African continent. It was established in 1992 in the form of a cultural association. Its founders had already been involved for a number of years in the cultural life of the Islands, as fanzine publishing editors, for Orín Desteñido, and for literary and music magazines, for Baile del Sol. The objectives of this association were retained throughout the years and Baile del Sol remains true to these to this day. On the one hand, we offer the chance to become published to new authors and, on the other, an increased effort so as local authors from the Canary Islands be considered for themselves and not because of their geographic origins. Our catalogue is additionally open to authors from other backgrounds. America, Oceania, Africa and Europe are all represented. We are, therefore, an open-minded and independent publishing house.
Contact : Ángeles ALONSO
4, rue d'Alger
1000 Tunis
Tunisia
Tél: (+216) 71 74 36 20 / (+216) 98 40 38 80
www.elyzad.com
elyzad Publishing was established in Tunis in 2005. In this Mediterranean country, with its rich melting pot of cultures, we have chosen to share a vibrant, modern literature rooted in diversity. Novels and short stories reflect our commitment: providing a platform from the South to the North for remarkable voices, from here and elsewhere, to read the world in its plurality.
Our editorial policy, deliberately uncompromising, was developed in the course of productive meetings with established authors Leïla Sebbar, Maïssa Bey, Colette Fellous, and Théo Ananissoh, who have put their trust in us, and others from Tunis, Algeria, France, which we have discovered and have the pleasure of introducing.
Views of Arab society mingle with nomadic texts redolent of the north seas and southern breezes, the Balkans and Japan… above all, any kind of multifaceted writing that opens the door or offers a passage to new experiences.
In fact, our catalogue includes works co-published with Actes Sud and Zellige in France and Le Fennec in Morocco. It contains thirty titles and a new paperback collection.
elyzad n’a pas de signification si ce n’est la réunion de mon prénom “Élisabeth” et nom “Daldoul”. Ce qui m’a intéressée dans cet « assemblage », ce sont les 3 racines que l’on peut décrypter : el : origine arabe ; ely : latine ; zad : perse... L’empreinte des mots qui se rencontrent...
Listen here the interview of Élisabeth Daldoul, carried out by the École des métiers de l’information (EMI-CFD), for the Hors Concours prize, October 2019.
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
Contact : Elisabeth DALDOUL
Elain Publishing is an independent Egyptian publishing house that was established in 2000 to provide a wide spectrum of knowledge to the Arab reader. Focusing principally on the fields of science, general Arabic culture, and translation, the publisher seeks to offer the Arab reader the best international, intellectual works.
In a record time, Elain has attracted a network of authors renowned for their talent and originality. We are committed to freedom of expression, the respect of intellectual property, and cooperation locally as well as globally.
Elain publishing house has now 200 published titles, including translated books. We reached the shortlist of the Booker Prize (International Prize for Arabic Fiction) and another that won the Elsheikh Zayed Prize
Via della Consolata 7
10122 Turin
Italy
Tél: +39 01 15 21 17 90
www.leoneverde.it
Il leone verde was founded in Turin in 1997, with the aim of putting out unpublished works, never previously translated into Italian. We always publish top-quality introductions, end matter and commentary in our works, produced by specialists of these topics.
Translations are always produced based on the source language of the texts, and we have opted for scientific rigour in their approach, even though our works target a broad spectrum of the public, rather than specialists.
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
Contact : Anita MOLINO
10 Orange Street - PO Box 2004 Sunnyside - Houghton
Auckland Park 2041
2092 Gauteng
South Africa
Tél: +27 011 628 3200 +27 011 482 7280
www.jacana.co.za
A South African publisher, Jacana Media has been in the business since 1991. The firm specialises in the vulgarisation of normally complex or technical data. We have been recognised for the quality of our books in areas such as the environment and eco-tourism, as well as literature and educational materials (primary and secondary school). In 2002, Jacana Media established an open publishing policy that has since received much positive feedback, covering a vast spectrum of genres and subjects. We are particularly interested in promoting authors from South Africa and Africa as a whole. Jacana Media currently publishes works in essentially three areas: “Life” (political science, biographies and autobiographies, history, health and educational material), “Earth” (environment, natural history, maps and eco-guides) and “Fiction” (novels, short stories, poetry, and anthologies and collections focusing on African authors).
Contact : Bridget IMPEY
6, avenue Alain Savary
Le Belvédère
1002 Tunis
Tunisia
Tél: (+ 216) 71 28 05 05
www.ceresbookshop.com
Cérès is one of the most important book publishing houses in North Africa. Publishing mainly in French and Arabic, its books are distributed in Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Mali, Benin, Lebanon, France, and many other countries. Cérès publishes approximately 45 new titles each year and has a current catalogue of over 700 titles in a wide variety of fields including fiction, history, philosophy, literature, education, social science, and tourist guides. Cérès publications have become benchmark works, addressing topics as diverse as Carthage, Tunisian mosaics, and painters.
Cérès est la déesse de la fertilité (romaine, anté-islamique).
Contact : Karim BEN SMAIL
The Arab Company of United Publishers, Med Ali Editions (Sfax - Tunisia) is a general independent publishing house founded in 1983.
Our books are made according to high-quality standards with the greatest possible care and attention at all levels. Our house works in cooperation with book professionals, artists, and renowned university teachers in various fields. We publish cultural books in the humanities and extracurricular books, with over 20 book series in the humanities, children’s books, and extracurricular books, as well as theses in cooperation with five Tunisian universities.
Med Ali Editions is dedicated to the mission of supporting and sharing all forms of learning and respecting the pleasure of knowledge, and distributing the Tunisian book.
Since 1990 we have participated in Arab and international book fairs. Since 1986 Med Ali Editions has been a member of the Union of Tunisian Editors. Since 1997 Med Ali Editions has been a member of the Union of Arab Editors and a member of the Maghreb Union of Editors. Med Ali Editions has co-published books with Tunisian, Lebanese, and Syrian editors, and editors from the Maghreb. We have also participated in the launch of an exporting company for the Tunisian book.
Med Ali est le nom du leader du syndicaliste tunisien (Mohamed Ali Elhammi). Il a étudié en Allemagne des cours du soir en économie, est revenu en Tunisie dans le début des années 1920. Il a créé des coopératives et les premiers syndicats nationalistes, qui vont lancer la première grève générale en Tunisie en 1924. Il est mort exilé en Arabie saoudite, tout jeune.
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
Contact : Nouri ABID
Wata al-mouçaïtbeh, rue Jabal al-arab
Imm. Khayat, P.O. Box 3181/11
CP 1107 2130 Beyrouth
Lebanon
Tél: +(961-1) 30 14 61 / (+961-1) 30 11 38
www.dar-alfarabi.com
We strive to publish and distribute works in Arabic on a diverse range of topics, from literature to social sciences, by local or translated authors, in order to promote a modern culture meeting the needs of Arab countries in terms of development and progress.
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 20th 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
Contact : Hassan KHALIL
Salim Salam St.Souk - Al Rawshe Bldg. 3rd floor
P.O.Box 113/5752
Beyrouth
Lebanon
Tél: (+961) 01 65 91 48
www.alintishar.com
Contact : Nabil MROUEH
321, bd Brahim Roudani
20390 Casablanca
Morocco
Tél: (+212) 05 22 25 23 57
www.tarikeditions.com
Éditions Tarik, based in Casablanca, Morocco, is headed by Bichr Bennani and Marie-Louise Belarbi, both founder members of Apell (Association for the promotion of book publishing and reading). Since its inception in 1999, this independent publishing firm has been involved in the debates of the modern world. Its objective is to explore the themes of history and current events, of society and memory, without neglecting the literary production of young Moroccan authors, and by giving priority, whenever possible, to co-publishing.
Nous étions 10 au départ de la maison (il y a 17 ans !)… après de longues heures de discussions, ce choix s’est porté sur Tarik, parce que chacun pouvait lui donner le sens qu’il voulait : Tarik Ibn Zyad (grand stratège du VIIe siècle, de plus d’origine berbère) ; Jabal Tarik (le mont Tarik, comme Gibraltar) ; la voie, le chemin, la route… ; Tarik est aussi un prénom qui était porté par des enfants ou petits-enfants de membre du groupe… Bref chacun y lisait ce qu’il voulait !
Ahmed MARZOUKI
Pendant longtemps les autorités marocaines ont
nié l’existence du bagne de Tazmamart, situé
en plein désert dans le sud du pays. Pourtant,
cinquante-huit officiers et sous officiers, fantassins
ou aviateurs, y furent enfermés en juillet 1973 pour avoir été impliqués, souvent à leur
corps défendant, dans les deux tentatives de
coup d’État de juillet 1971 et août 1972.
Après dix-huit ans de détention dans des conditions
inhumaines, quand s’ouvrent les portes de Tazmamart, seuls vingt-huit d’entre eux avaient
survécu. Ahmed Marzouki occupait la cellule 10. Il témoigne ici de ce qu’il a vécu pendant
et après Tazmamart, pour dire l’atrocité de la
vie quotidienne au bagne, dans l’espoir que cela ne se reproduise jamais.
336 pages - 13 x 21 cm - 16 € - ISBN : 9981-1974-3-2
Échec d’une révolution, 1963-1973 - Medhi BENNOUNA
Mars 1973 : dans l’Atlas, des guérilleros
marocains tentent d’installer un foyer révolutionnaire
et, pour beaucoup, tombent les armes
à la main, dont l’un de leurs chefs, Mohamed
Bennouna, dit Mahmoud. Certains sont arrêtés
et seront jugés à Kénitra, puis à Meknès, l’année
suivante. Une vingtaine seront condamnés
à mort et fusillés. D’autres, rares, échappent
aux poursuites, se fondent dans la population, gagnent les frontières. C’est toute une organisation,
ses membres, ses chefs, sa politique qui sont ainsi présentés, et, au-delà, une période
jusqu’alors méconnue de l’histoire du Maroc
qui est ainsi dévoilée.
374 pages - 15 x 22 cm - 18 € - ISBN:9954-8088-8-4
Bribes de vérité sur les années de plomb - Abdelfettah FAKIHANI - Préface d’Ignace DALLE
Abdelfettah Fakihani est journaliste depuis 1990.
Emprisonné pour délit d’opinion une première fois
de mars 1972 à août 1973, puis de 1975 à 1989, il
pose les questions de la fragile liberté d’expression
et de l’option démocratique au Maroc. Au-delà de
son témoignage sur son incarcération, il nous livre
sa vision du militantisme avant, pendant et après
sa détention. Cet ouvrage enrichit les publications
précédentes concernant ces mêmes années, car il donne aussi à réfléchir sur la problématique des
prisonniers une fois libérés.
186 pages - 13 x 21 cm - 12 € - ISBN: 9954-419-28-4
Contact : Bichr BENNANI
International Alliance
of Independent Publishers
38 rue Saint-Sabin
75011 Paris - France