A queer Palestinian refugee plans to come out at his elaborate birthday dinner party in this tragicomic modern reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.Firas Dareer wakes up on his twenty-third birthday with a sense of purpose: today he’ll jump from a Stage 3 to a Stage 6 in his self-determined Coming Out Scale, professing his sexuality to a captive audience of immediate and extended family, friends, acquaintances, coworkers, and neighbours. But despi...

After a lifetime of disillusionment with love, a woman's beliefs are shattered by a profound personal crisis. In her despair, she engages in a direct and starting conversation with God, challenging the very nature of existence, loneliness, and faith. This philosophical journey culminates in an unexpected pact: forty days to rediscover love and meaning alongside the divine being she has come to question, forcing her to confront her own brokenness and find a new way to live.As her da...

Through Loss is an intimate memoir that captures the raw emotions of losing a loved one and the slow, fragile process of healing. With honesty and heartfelt detail, Lívia Saadi takes readers through the depths of grief, the power of memory, and the unexpected ways hope can return.This is not just a story about sorrow, but about resilience, love, and rediscovering life after tragedy. Written with vulnerability and courage, it speaks to anyone who has faced loss and is searching for ...

Pluviophile veers through various poetic visions and traditions in search of the sacred within and beyond language. Its poems continually revitalize form, imagery and sonancy to reconsider the ways we value language, beauty and body. The collection houses sonnets and other shorter poems between larger, more meditative runes. One of these longer poems, “The Place Words Go to Die,” winner of The Malahat Review’s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry, imagines an underworld whe...

Saadi is one of the greatest figures of classical Persian literature. His best-known work of poetry is the ‘Bustan’ (The Orchard), composed entirely in epic metre and consisting of stories illustrating the standard virtues recommended to Muslims, as well as offering reflections on the behaviour of dervishes and their ecstatic practices. Saadi also wrote the ‘Gulistan’, a prose collection featuring stories and personal anecdotes. The text is interspersed with a variety of short poem...

"The Famous and Influential Arabs in Chicagoland" is a persuasive book that accentuates the resolute contributions of Arab leaders, professionals, and visionaries who have sculpted the region's cultural, economic, and intellectual terrain. Through conscientiously curated interviews and convincing narratives, this book analyzes the Arab-American community's steadiness, innovation, and influence in Chicagoland. It spotlights the historical expansion of their presence and the socio-political ...

A hilarious self-help book for recovering Leafs fans everywhere.We’ve all heard it. The sound of one team sucking. Our team. The Leafs. It starts as an almost imperceptible hum, a month or so after the home opener, once the shine of the new season wears off, building in intensity with each defeat until the sound explodes like the noise a star might make if you ripped its heart out. Fact is, being a Maple Leafs fan is a kind of addiction: irrational, compulsive, dep...

These days, the real meaning of photography has blurred out like an out of focus picture. There is a misconception of what is photography is really about. There are people who have forgotten the purpose of photography and then there are those who did not even know the purpose in the first place. Whether its camera basics or professional level photography, people have become ignorant of the true meaning and purpose of this amazing art. I believe that this thing has ruined the professional p...

Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination.Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more complicated, and moments of struggle and inspiration still recur despite the overwhelming odds against the movements’ success.This collection of short comics documents the political and social unrest in the Middle East during the 2010s, in such places as Leb...

Why do people behave in the way they do and how can we get them to change?Drawing on a large body of empirical research, Lahlou shows that people’s behaviour is predictable and shaped by ‘installations’ combining three sets of factors: what is technically possible (affordances of the environment), what people are able to do (embodied competences), and what monitors and controls behaviour (social regulation). These channel our behaviour and incline us to act one way or another in sp...

Saadi of Shiraz was a major Persian poet and literary of the medieval period. He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts. Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname 'Master of Speech' or 'The Master' among Persian scholars.

The Silence of the World is a powerful exploration of the ongoing genocide and atrocities in Gaza and Palestine. This thought-provoking book delves into the harsh realities faced by Palestinians, exposing the human suffering and systemic oppression endured for decades. It raises the critical question: Why does the world remain silent in the face of such injustice? Through compelling insights and an unflinching narrative, the book challenges readers to confront the global indifference and r...