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ومع أن هذا الكتاب هو آخر ما أنشأ الرافعي. لكنه أول ما ينبغي أن يُقرأ له. وأن البدء به لجدير أن يعوّد قارئه أسلوبَ الرافعي فيسلس له صَعْبُه وينقاد.]]> 357 مصطفى صادق الرافعي Nema 4 4.28
author: مصطفى صادق الرافعي
name: Nema
average rating: 4.28
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rating: 4
read at: 2014/01/25
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ومع أن هذا الكتاب هو آخر ما أنشأ الرافعي. لكنه أول ما ينبغي أن يُقرأ له. وأن البدء به لجدير أن يعوّد قارئه أسلوبَ الرافعي فيسلس له صَعْبُه وينقاد.]]> 350 مصطفى صادق الرافعي Nema 3 4.34
author: مصطفى صادق الرافعي
name: Nema
average rating: 4.34
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2016/04/19
date added: 2021/03/03
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]]> 43401878 272 حمور زيادة Nema 0 to-read 3.74 2019
author: حمور زيادة
name: Nema
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 6329185 136 Malik B. Badri 1565642678 Nema 0 currently-reading 4.53 2000
author: Malik B. Badri
name: Nema
average rating: 4.53
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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]]> 23845923 232 David A. Carbonell 1626253188 Nema 5 The book is brilliant and hugely quotable, not because the quotes are cool but because they are so very relatable.
It made me understand why CBT hasn’t worked for me, and it gave me ideas for other schools of therapy that could work better for my kind of thoughts and anxious mind.
The author is very humorous and he even addresses humor as a form of therapy and technique for dealing with chronic worry.

A lot of the reviews criticised how repetitive the book was. However, to me this was a plus, because when it comes to worry and anxiety, we do need these repetitions because our minds are never easily convinced, so we have to repeat the ideas and thoughts.

To say that this book has changed my life would be too much, but it certainly did show me new horizons when dealing with my own anxieties. And it gave me a push to be braver to read more about this topic, which a year ago would have been a huge trigger for me.

I absolutely recommend this book because it erased that fear I had from reading about my mental state. And because it ridicules worry, and this is exactly what we need to overcome our anxieties.]]> 3.75 2016
author: David A. Carbonell
name: Nema
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2020/06/29
date added: 2020/06/29
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I started reading this book when I finally decided it’s time I faced my fears head on. And I think I picked just about the right book to kick off my journey.
The book is brilliant and hugely quotable, not because the quotes are cool but because they are so very relatable.
It made me understand why CBT hasn’t worked for me, and it gave me ideas for other schools of therapy that could work better for my kind of thoughts and anxious mind.
The author is very humorous and he even addresses humor as a form of therapy and technique for dealing with chronic worry.

A lot of the reviews criticised how repetitive the book was. However, to me this was a plus, because when it comes to worry and anxiety, we do need these repetitions because our minds are never easily convinced, so we have to repeat the ideas and thoughts.

To say that this book has changed my life would be too much, but it certainly did show me new horizons when dealing with my own anxieties. And it gave me a push to be braver to read more about this topic, which a year ago would have been a huge trigger for me.

I absolutely recommend this book because it erased that fear I had from reading about my mental state. And because it ridicules worry, and this is exactly what we need to overcome our anxieties.
]]> 25733573 Matt Haig’s accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live.

Like nearly one in five people, Matt Haig suffers from depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt’s inspiring account of how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend (and now-wife), Andrea. And eventually, he learned to appreciate life all the more for it.

Everyone’s lives are touched by mental illness: if we do not suffer from it ourselves, then we have a friend or loved one who does. Matt’s frankness about his experiences is both inspiring to those who feel daunted by depression and illuminating to those who are mystified by it. Above all, his humor and encouragement never let us lose sight of hope. Speaking as his present self to his former self in the depths of depression, Matt is adamant that the oldest cliché is the truest—there is light at the end of the tunnel. He teaches us to celebrate the small joys and moments of peace that life brings, and reminds us that there are always reasons to stay alive.]]> 256 Matt Haig 0143128728 Nema 5 beat it.
I believe that we should read about the things that scare the hell out of us, and this was my bravest moment; to read about something I feared so much, even if I didn't really have it. Matt Haig has a way with words, and I guess it's people who go through the most painful experiences in life that know how to exactly write about these experiences.
The book has so many quotes that I had already known before realising they were from it, and the one that I recall quite well which really struck me as the most accurately beautiful thing I have read in so long is this:

“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.��

This truly is a beautiful book that I think everyone should read. Painful? Yes. Heartbreaking? Hell, yes! But it teaches us many lessons no one often speaks about. That depression is smaller than all of us, that mental illnesses are all smaller than us, that they live within us rather than us living within them.

This is the truest book I have read in so long.]]> 4.04 2015
author: Matt Haig
name: Nema
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2020/06/12
date added: 2020/06/12
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This book is so beautiful you wouldn't want to finish it despite the pain it gives you. Matt Haig shares his personal experience with depression, how it started, progressed, and how it changed his life. The first few chapters are painful and scary, and they will make you weep, but understanding depression is essential to actually beat it.
I believe that we should read about the things that scare the hell out of us, and this was my bravest moment; to read about something I feared so much, even if I didn't really have it. Matt Haig has a way with words, and I guess it's people who go through the most painful experiences in life that know how to exactly write about these experiences.
The book has so many quotes that I had already known before realising they were from it, and the one that I recall quite well which really struck me as the most accurately beautiful thing I have read in so long is this:

“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.��

This truly is a beautiful book that I think everyone should read. Painful? Yes. Heartbreaking? Hell, yes! But it teaches us many lessons no one often speaks about. That depression is smaller than all of us, that mental illnesses are all smaller than us, that they live within us rather than us living within them.

This is the truest book I have read in so long.
]]> 37760068 ذلك أن موقعنا على درجات السلم الاجتماعي يلعب دوراً حاسماً في حياتنا لأن صورتنا الذاتية تعتمد بشدة على ما يراه الآخرون فينا .
لكنه يتساءل أيضاً : هل يستحق البحث عن المكانة ان نقدم التضحيات ؟

يعتبر هذا الكتاب أغنى وأظرف وأكثر أعمال دو بوتون انتشاراً ، يظهر لنا فيه مدى سعة معرفة واطلاع صاحبه ، ومدى وفرة وأناقة وأصالة أفكاره .]]> 312 Alain de Botton 6144720057 Nema 0 currently-reading 3.91 2004
author: Alain de Botton
name: Nema
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> 50656234 181 طه سويدى Nema 4 أجمل ما في الرواية التعاطف الذي وضعه الكاتب في قلوبنا لأبناء الطبقات المجتمعية الأخرى، والتي أرانا الكاتب من خلالها كم من السهل أن نقع في مصيدة العنصرية.
الجزء المفضل لي من الكتاب هو سيرة الولد. مختلفة كثيرًاعن باقي الرواية وبها طابع مظلم ولكن جميل.

لغة الكاتب هي أجمل ما في الكتاب. لغة سهلة وممتعة جدًا وبها تعبيرات رائعة ومختلفة.
]]> 3.85
author: طه سويدى
name: Nema
average rating: 3.85
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rating: 4
read at: 2020/06/02
date added: 2020/06/02
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طبعًا أنا شهادتي مجروحة ولكن لا يمنع أن أقول رأيي وبكل صراحة.
أجمل ما في الرواية التعاطف الذي وضعه الكاتب في قلوبنا لأبناء الطبقات المجتمعية الأخرى، والتي أرانا الكاتب من خلالها كم من السهل أن نقع في مصيدة العنصرية.
الجزء المفضل لي من الكتاب هو سيرة الولد. مختلفة كثيرًاعن باقي الرواية وبها طابع مظلم ولكن جميل.

لغة الكاتب هي أجمل ما في الكتاب. لغة سهلة وممتعة جدًا وبها تعبيرات رائعة ومختلفة.

]]> 24863447 80 Abu Zayd al-Balkhi 1565645995 Nema 0 to-read 4.26 2010
author: Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
name: Nema
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> 23830306 48 Haruki Murakami 6007556204 Nema 2 3.52 2013
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Nema
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2013
rating: 2
read at: 2019/04/14
date added: 2020/04/30
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No matter how many chances I give Murakami, he never fails to disappoint me. An OK read. Not sure I like the idea of taking someone's novel and writing an inversion of it. Sounds like an easy choice to get witty.
]]> 4069 Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.]]> 165 Viktor E. Frankl 080701429X Nema 5 I love how you never feel that the author is philosophising the experience but trying to learn the meaning of suffering and the meanings of life through everything he’s been through. This book gives so much hope in healing to anyone who is going or has gone through any mental hardships or illness. It basically tells you that life isn’t there to make us happy but instead we should be bravely suffering because that’s what gets us going.
I would recommend this book to anyone I know. A very useful and beautiful read that is changing my life.]]> 4.38 1946
author: Viktor E. Frankl
name: Nema
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1946
rating: 5
read at: 2020/03/12
date added: 2020/03/12
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This is by far the most beautiful book I have ever read. It might look like I’ve spent too much time reading it but I honestly procrastinated finishing it because I did not want to. While Part I was heartbreaking, Parts II and III were all what this book was about. There are many sections of this book that I read twice on this first read, and I will no doubt be reading the entire book again soon.
I love how you never feel that the author is philosophising the experience but trying to learn the meaning of suffering and the meanings of life through everything he’s been through. This book gives so much hope in healing to anyone who is going or has gone through any mental hardships or illness. It basically tells you that life isn’t there to make us happy but instead we should be bravely suffering because that’s what gets us going.
I would recommend this book to anyone I know. A very useful and beautiful read that is changing my life.
]]> 28257707 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062457738

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited��"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.]]> 212 Mark Manson Nema 0 Some stories were really good; but some chapters were entirely boring I don’t remember a word of them. However, the book did add to my knowledge and motivation.
Wouldn’t re-read it though. ]]> 3.87 2016
author: Mark Manson
name: Nema
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2020/02/19
date added: 2020/02/23
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I’m not exactly sure about how I feel towards this book. I was not going to read it so I went for Audible. I know that the title of the book tells that he’s going to use the F word a lot, but I honestly didn’t like it and felt it too much in the book.
Some stories were really good; but some chapters were entirely boring I don’t remember a word of them. However, the book did add to my knowledge and motivation.
Wouldn’t re-read it though.
]]> 3776298 500 خيري شلبي Nema 3 3.74 2005
author: خيري شلبي
name: Nema
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2020/02/23
date added: 2020/02/23
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]]> 3768802 135 إبراهيم أصلان Nema 5 3.59 2003
author: إبراهيم أصلان
name: Nema
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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إبراهيم أصلان.. الكاتب الساحر. أود أن أقرأ لكل الكُتاب الذين تحدث عنهم.
]]> 16177668
يا زينب، منذ عام 1996م، كنتِ وقتها في خامستكِ، وأنا أجاهدني بالكتابة إليكِ، اشرعُ أسوّدُ عشرات الصفحات ثمّ انقلبُ عليّ جرّاء يقيني إنّي في غفلة منّي أكتب بانفعال غير مبرر، أصرفني عن الكتابة سنة أو أكثر، ريثما يعود توقي للتواصل بكِ، أُقبل على الكتابة، لأنصرف عنها بعد قليل للسبب إيّاه، كل بداياتي تلك حفظتها داخل ملفات تحمل تأريخها آملاً أعودُ إليها أوظّفها ضمن مشروع واحد أتمنّى وصوله إليكِ كاملاً، الليلة اتخذتُ قرار البدء من جديد دون العودة لما راكمته في مرات سابقة، كذلك آليتُ على نفسي أكتبها خبط عشواء، غير ملزم بتسلسل الأحداث حسب المنطق المعتاد لتواليها، منساقاً لتداعي لحظتها الآنيّة حتّى لا أتذرّعُ بصعوبة التنسيق فانصرف عن المتابعة.

مجتزأ من مقدمة الشاعرة سعدية مفرّح:

في حضرة العنقاء والخل الوفي، ينطلق اسماعيل فهد اسماعيل مستعيداً ذاته الكامنة في ما وراء الكلمات والشخصيات والمواقف، ليصنع روايته الجديدة وكأنه يصنع روايته الأولى، بعد تجريب كتابي طال وتمدد بين سنوات العمر وتضاعيف الموهبة وتداعيات الحياة بكل معطياتها.

في هذه الرواية يبدو هذا الروائي المخضرم شاباً موهوباً، للتو غادر السبعين من عمره كي يبدأ الكتابة في خضم الدهشة واسترسال الاكتشاف وزهو الموهبة الفريدة.

ولعلي لا أبالغ إذا قلت أنني شعرت وأنا أقرأ هذه الرواية وكأنني أقرأ لاسماعيل فهد اسماعيل للمرة الأولى في حياتي، أنا التي اطلعت على معظم رواياته الخمس والعشرين السابقة والتي أصدرها على مدى أربعة عقود كاملة، ربما لأنه يحاول من خلالها أن يقدم نمطا كتابيا جديدا يخلط فيه وفقا لمقادير محسوبة، من دون أن تخل بعفوية الفن الروائي في ذلك الشق، بين الحياة كما عاش بعض مواقفها فعلا، وبينها كما يريد أن يعيش بعض مواقفها، وبين ما يتوقع ان تكون، وبين الحلم. وأيضا لأنه في هذه الحياة التي كتبها بين ثنايا رواية اختزل الكثير مما يقال في سبيل التطلع الى قارئ نوعي ومتلق جاد وذكي..والأهم عاشق للرواية.

«في حضرة العنقاء والخل الوفي» إذاً رواية «صعبة» ليس على صعيد الكتابة وحسب، بل أولا على صعيد القراءة، وأتوقع أن المتلقي لا بد وأن يجتهد كثيرا في سبيل استخلاص المتع الراسبة بين نهايات الفصول حتماً.]]> 392 إسماعيل فهد إسماعيل 6140106567 Nema 0 to-read 4.09 2013
author: إسماعيل فهد إسماعيل
name: Nema
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/07/07
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]]> 8810
The basis for one of the most notorious films ever made, A Clockwork Orange is both a virtuoso performance from an electrifying prose stylist and a serious exploration of the morality of free will.

'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book'
William S. Burroughs]]> 159 Anthony Burgess 0141182601 Nema 5 Let us speak of each idea individually, starting off with Alex, the main character and Our Humble Narrator.
Alex is the most violent kid I've lived with in novels, he is so violent that you'd want to cry because of all the horrible things he does to people and how he enjoys it. But at the same time he's suddenly make you sympathize with him when he's being tortured and he starts saying "Your Humble and Suffering Narrator", or when he goes like "Your Humble Narrator, my only friends", to make you feel like you're suffering from Stockholm Syndrome yourself. I think this is how smart Burgess is, he knew how to play with the mind of the reader (one thing, that it).
Then comes the bezoomny crazy language of this chelloveck man Burgess, I seriously suffered at the beginning of this novel for I couldn't understand cal (shit, that is), but then I started reading online about it and came to the conclusion that Burgess, with his own smartass-ness, came up with this language for two reasons: one is because he is a linguist and he wanted to write a piece of unique literature composed of Russian loans, Latin and some words he invented by himself, to make the reader read, not just let his eyes through the lines of the book, as well as smother the graphic parts in the novel a bit. And the second reason is, because the novel has its own 'brainwashing' plot, Burgess wrote such words to, literally, brainwash the readers, which is basically why I gave this book 5 stars. That's the effort I loved in the novel.

the three words above are an example of the language used

The moral story behind this novel we all know, just like 1984, The palace of Dreams, Fahrenheit 451 and all the Dystopian novels. However, there was a huge karma imposed upon Alex like I've not seen in any of the above mentioned novels. And it kind of was the most brutal that would make you feel sorry for him, Our Humble Narrator.

Other than all of that, I would never ever recommend this book to some random person I know, because if you think that Orwell's 1984 was a btural novel in the torturing parts, then don't even think about reading A Clockwork Orange, ever.

"It was like as though to get better I had had to get worse."

Be careful.]]> 3.97 1962
author: Anthony Burgess
name: Nema
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1962
rating: 5
read at: 2013/10/08
date added: 2019/06/06
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This is like the most fucked up novel I have ever, ever read in my life. It is so messed up that you cannot give it a rating that is lesser than 5 stars without even knowing how.
Let us speak of each idea individually, starting off with Alex, the main character and Our Humble Narrator.
Alex is the most violent kid I've lived with in novels, he is so violent that you'd want to cry because of all the horrible things he does to people and how he enjoys it. But at the same time he's suddenly make you sympathize with him when he's being tortured and he starts saying "Your Humble and Suffering Narrator", or when he goes like "Your Humble Narrator, my only friends", to make you feel like you're suffering from Stockholm Syndrome yourself. I think this is how smart Burgess is, he knew how to play with the mind of the reader (one thing, that it).
Then comes the bezoomny crazy language of this chelloveck man Burgess, I seriously suffered at the beginning of this novel for I couldn't understand cal (shit, that is), but then I started reading online about it and came to the conclusion that Burgess, with his own smartass-ness, came up with this language for two reasons: one is because he is a linguist and he wanted to write a piece of unique literature composed of Russian loans, Latin and some words he invented by himself, to make the reader read, not just let his eyes through the lines of the book, as well as smother the graphic parts in the novel a bit. And the second reason is, because the novel has its own 'brainwashing' plot, Burgess wrote such words to, literally, brainwash the readers, which is basically why I gave this book 5 stars. That's the effort I loved in the novel.

the three words above are an example of the language used

The moral story behind this novel we all know, just like 1984, The palace of Dreams, Fahrenheit 451 and all the Dystopian novels. However, there was a huge karma imposed upon Alex like I've not seen in any of the above mentioned novels. And it kind of was the most brutal that would make you feel sorry for him, Our Humble Narrator.

Other than all of that, I would never ever recommend this book to some random person I know, because if you think that Orwell's 1984 was a btural novel in the torturing parts, then don't even think about reading A Clockwork Orange, ever.

"It was like as though to get better I had had to get worse."

Be careful.
]]> 5781611
يتوزع الدفتر على اثنين وعشرين فصلاً هي: تحنين، ما يمكن أن يكون، ألف، الملكة، ضوء، بلبلة، مركز، للمعمار شأن، باب العفو، باب النخيل، أسينة الحجر، جاذب، توالج الضوء، طليطلية، خجلة الشذا، بريقة، جبرينية، سعيرها، موريلية، بلوغ الأسباب، فصم العرى، مختتم.

تبدو الشخصيات متنوعة المشارب منتمية إلى أنماط مختلفة: السارد، الغيطاني، أصدقاؤه، مواطنون، بحارة، نساء ويمكن تصنيفها كالتالي:
* الشخصيات الواقعية: ونقصد الشخصيات التي يستطيع القارئ من خلال العودة إلى مصادر أخرى كالكتب والشهادات والحوارات الصحفية أن يكتشف أنها شخصيات تنتمي إلى الواقع المعيش وأنها ليست مختلقة من قبل الخيال. ومنها الغيطاني في حديثه عن "خطط الغيطاني" أو "رسالة في الصبابة والوجود" وأحمد الفلاحي.
* الشخصيات المتخيلة: وهي الشخصيات التي يشكلها المبدع ويبعثها الى الوجود النص الروائي.
* السارد: يتجلى السارد في الرواية من خلال ضمير المتكلم "أنا" عبر كل الفصول. أما الوضعية التي ارتضاها لنفسه فتتمثل في كونه داخل القصة.

ما تبقى أقل مما مضى. يقين لا شك فيه، أعيه، أتمثله، أعيشه. فلماذا أبدو مبهوتا، مباغتا كأنى لاأعرف. مع اننى المعنى والمطوى والماضى الى زوال حتمى؟ لا أتوقف عن إبداء الدهشة، لاأكف عن التساؤل ان بالصمت او بالنطق.]]> 172 جمال الغيطاني 9770909270 Nema 3 3.12
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عيبٌ على كاتب يمتلك هذا الكم الفخم والمرعب من الكلمات الرائعة والأسلوب الراقي أن يستغله في هذه الأوصاف الصريحة عن جسد المرأة وتأثيرها "جسديًا" فيه وليس تأثيرها كأنثى تُضفي للحياة طابعًا ليس إلا عن الرغبة الجسدية ..
]]> 13637412 لو كنت مثل نبتة البامبو.. لا انتماء لها.. نقتطع جزءاً من ساقها.. نغرسه، بلا جذور، في أي أرض.. لا يلبث الساق طويلاً حتى تنبت له جذور جديدة.. تنمو من جديد.. في أرض جديدة.. بلا ماض.. بلا ذاكرة.. لا يلتفت إلى اختلاف الناس حول تسميته.. كاوايان في الفلبين.. خيزران في الكويت.. أو بامبو في أماكن أخرى.]]> 401 سعود السنعوسي 6140105234 Nema 3 كتاب جيد ولكن به الكثير من الفجوات. به أخطاء نحوية لا تُغتفر، وحشو أحيانًا ما يصبح مملًا شديد الملل إلى حد أني أردت أن أقلب الصفحات للوصول للحدث الرئيسي.
مشكلة سعود أيضًا أنه يُعجب بخياله ولغته أحيانًا فيحاول صبّ حِكمته علينا ولكنها تبدو مصطنعة للغاية، وحتى اللغة المجهود فيها واضح بشكل سلبي حيث فقدت سلاستها أحيانًا.

كتاب جيد ولكن لا يستحق البوكر في رأيي. ولا أظن أنني سأقرأ لسعود مجددًا. ولكنني أتمنى له كل التوفيق فهو يحاول بصدق.]]> 4.22 2012
author: سعود السنعوسي
name: Nema
average rating: 4.22
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rating: 3
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أخذني الكتاب في البداية فغُصتُ معه ولم أستطع تركه فوجدت نفسي أقرأ الكثير من الصفحات وأوقف نفسي عن القراءة بمجهود.
كتاب جيد ولكن به الكثير من الفجوات. به أخطاء نحوية لا تُغتفر، وحشو أحيانًا ما يصبح مملًا شديد الملل إلى حد أني أردت أن أقلب الصفحات للوصول للحدث الرئيسي.
مشكلة سعود أيضًا أنه يُعجب بخياله ولغته أحيانًا فيحاول صبّ حِكمته علينا ولكنها تبدو مصطنعة للغاية، وحتى اللغة المجهود فيها واضح بشكل سلبي حيث فقدت سلاستها أحيانًا.

كتاب جيد ولكن لا يستحق البوكر في رأيي. ولا أظن أنني سأقرأ لسعود مجددًا. ولكنني أتمنى له كل التوفيق فهو يحاول بصدق.
]]> 4835 Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating novel, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers.]]> 224 Salman Rushdie 0670886580 Nema 0 to-read 3.99 1990
author: Salman Rushdie
name: Nema
average rating: 3.99
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rating: 0
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]]> 3886603 64 Colette Bryce 0330456253 Nema 0 to-read 3.28 2008
author: Colette Bryce
name: Nema
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> 25990703
But when Kalinga Magha, a ruthless prince with a formidable army, arrives upon Lanka's shores, Asanka's world is changed beyond imagining. Violent, hubristic and unpredictable, Magha usurps the throne, laying waste to all who stand in his way. Under his terrifying rule, nothing in the city is left untouched and, like many of his fellow citizens, Asanka retreats into the shadows, hoping to pass unnoticed by the tyrant. But it seems his new master is a lover of poetry...

To Asanka's horror, Magha tasks him with the translation of an epic Sanskrit poem, a tale of Gods and nobles, love and revenge, which the king believes will have a civilising effect on his subjects, soothing their discontent and snuffing out the fires of rebellion he suspects are igniting across the island.

Asanka has always believed that poetry makes nothing happen, but as each new chapter he writes is disseminated through the land and lines on the page become cries in the street, his belief and his loyalties are challenged. And, as Magha circles ever closer to the things Asanka treasures most, the poet will discover that true power lies not at the point of a sword, but in the tip of a pen.]]> 320 Paul M.M. Cooper 1408862182 Nema 0 to-read 3.75 2016
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> 34210334 This journey is what I do now. I bump along, in fits and starts, on a perpetual path to finding better ways for me and my mate, Anxiety, to get around. It's everything I do.

Sarah Wilson—bestselling author and entrepreneur, intrepid solver of problems and investigator of how to live a better life—has helped over 1.2 million people across the world to quit sugar. She has also been an anxiety sufferer her whole life.

In her new book, she directs her intense focus and fierce investigatory skills onto this lifetime companion of hers, looking at the triggers and treatments, the fashions and fads. She reads widely and interviews fellow sufferers, mental health experts, philosophers, and even the Dalai Lama, processing all she learns through the prism her own experiences.

Sarah pulls at the thread of accepted definitions of anxiety, and unravels the notion that it is a difficult, dangerous disease that must be medicated into submission. Ultimately, she re-frames anxiety as a spiritual quest rather than a burdensome affliction, a state of yearning that will lead us closer to what really matters.

Practical and poetic, wise and funny, this is a small book with a big heart. It will encourage the myriad sufferers of the world's most common mental illness to feel not just better about their condition, but delighted by the possibilities it offers for a richer, fuller life.]]> 320 Sarah Wilson 1743535864 Nema 0 to-read 3.75 2017
author: Sarah Wilson
name: Nema
average rating: 3.75
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]]> 25746335 When first published in 1926 this book aroused much controversy. The theory expounded in the book was that Islamic sources in general, and the writings of Ibn al-'Arabi in particular, formed the basis of Dante’s poem Divine Comedy, the poem which symbolised the whole culture of medieval Christianity. The book shows how fundamental Muslim legends of the nocturnal journey and of the ascension of the Prophet Muhammed appear in Dante’s writings.

]]> 352 Miguel Asín Palacios 9779102302 Nema 0 to-read 3.65 1968
author: Miguel Asín Palacios
name: Nema
average rating: 3.65
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]]> 249042
"Compelling ... Harrowing ... a vivid portrait of a debilitating disorder ... It offers the solace of a shared experience."�� The New York Times

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his experience of crippling depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery.]]> 84 William Styron 0679736395 Nema 4 I certainly learned a lot about depression from this book, and I truly admire the author for being that brave to share his own experience with such horrific mental illness.
Beautiful book. It left me dumbstruck at the very last lines. I wanted to cry because I never understood a mental illness (other than anxiety) this much.
I would read this book again.
]]> 4.01 1990
author: William Styron
name: Nema
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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A beautifully dark memoir on depression. It takes you to a journey most of us have no idea about. Depression. With all its melancholia and suicidal thoughts, imagining the depletion of norepinephrine and serotonin hormones and the increase of cortisol, the hormone that increases anxiety. A scary, scary vision and thought.
I certainly learned a lot about depression from this book, and I truly admire the author for being that brave to share his own experience with such horrific mental illness.
Beautiful book. It left me dumbstruck at the very last lines. I wanted to cry because I never understood a mental illness (other than anxiety) this much.
I would read this book again.

]]> 7654939 تضم «حجرتان وصالة» ثماني وعشرين حكاية منزلية عن زوجين، أودع فيها أصلان خبرة نادرة في تخليق نوع من القصص لا تكاد تبدأ قراءته حتى تكتشف في الكاتب والكتابة والحياة اليومية درجات من الدهشة ربما لم تلتفت إليها أبدًا
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آآخر صفحة
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(يا ألف أهلاً وسهلاً، أنا عرفت الكوباية أول ما شفتها وقلت لازم أعرف مين اللي بعتها، الحمد لله إنك بخير يا أستاذ)
كان بالوجه الأسمر الضاحك والطاقية والمريلة الدمّور هو منصور القديم بالضبط، ممد يديه بكوب الفول في يد وبضعة أرغفة من العيش وحزمة من البصل الأخضر في اليد الأخرى:
(عمر يا أستـاذ، لكن أنا عرفت الكباية أول ما شفتها)
والأستاذ تناول الكوب الدافئ والعيش والبصل الأخضر ودعاه يفطر معه، ومنصور اعتذر لأن العربة وحدها، وأعاد له الجنيهات الخمس:
(المرة دي على حساب المحل)
وأمسك الدرابزين ونزل متثاقلاً.
الأستاذ خليل أعطى للصبي جنيهًا وأغلق الباب]]> 138 إبراهيم أصلان Nema 4 3.64 2009
author: إبراهيم أصلان
name: Nema
average rating: 3.64
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rating: 4
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]]> 34118167 ولهذا السبب بالتحديد اخترت أن أترُك النوم يبتلعُني، كي أنسى ما بداخلي، كي أظلّ مغمضة العينين، وتصبح جفوني هي الغطاء الذي يمنع أي إحساس بداخلي من الظهور جليًا أمام من أحب، أمام من أخشى أن يدرك أن وراء هاتين العينين أكثر من مجرد لون فاتح يهوى النظر إليهما.
من سيعلم يومًا أنني لستُ أنا."]]> 98 Nema Al-Araby Nema 0 to-read 4.40
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]]> 3314735 190 Zoran Živković 1906301190 Nema 0 3.69 2008
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> 1034822
The Ministry of Whimsy edition of The Fourth Circle concludes with an afterword by Živkovic about the travails of writing his first novel, translating it into English, and then finding a publisher for it. All while war in Živkovic’s native Serbia surrounded him.

"In its rich tapestry of prose and compositional skills, as well as in its imaginative leaps and intellectual sophistication, The Fourth Circle must be considered, so far, as the author's masterpiece, an acclamation that extends well beyond a mere appreciation of Živkovic's own and singular work."
--SF Site.com

“Zoran Živkovic is a subtle, intelligent, wonderfully inventive writer who brings a fresh point of view, an idiosyncratic angle of attack, to everything he produces. He is one of the finest writers currently at work in the ‘New Europe.�� Read him and celebrate.”]]> 240 Zoran Živković 1892389657 Nema 0 to-read 3.65 1993
author: Zoran Živković
name: Nema
average rating: 3.65
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]]> 28264424 285 Sinan Antoon 9933352024 Nema 4 3.84 2016
author: Sinan Antoon
name: Nema
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> 18839 Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.]]> 336 Virginia Woolf 0141184272 Nema 2 There are exactly two things that I liked in this book; 1) Woolf's stream of consciousness here was better than in any book I've read. And the way she addresses the reader, it's something I've always admired in writers. 2) I still cannot deny Woolf's good lines here and there. Sometimes she shocked me with the wisest lines, but honestly they weren't too many to talk about.
I don't know if I should say I'm disappointed, because this book is a typical Virginia Woolf book, but I have to say it isn't a book I'd want to look at again. ]]> 3.88 1928
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Nema
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1928
rating: 2
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I don't know how to rate this book. I struggled so mych to read it, and I thought I was the only one who didn't understand so many parts if it because of her language, but I wasn't.
There are exactly two things that I liked in this book; 1) Woolf's stream of consciousness here was better than in any book I've read. And the way she addresses the reader, it's something I've always admired in writers. 2) I still cannot deny Woolf's good lines here and there. Sometimes she shocked me with the wisest lines, but honestly they weren't too many to talk about.
I don't know if I should say I'm disappointed, because this book is a typical Virginia Woolf book, but I have to say it isn't a book I'd want to look at again.
]]> 368916
[text from the back cover of the book]]]> 106 Helene Hanff Nema 0 to-read 4.17 1970
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name: Nema
average rating: 4.17
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]]> 28402941 118 Zoran Živković Nema 4 3.63 2002
author: Zoran Živković
name: Nema
average rating: 3.63
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rating: 4
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]]> 5490
The history of a Cairo alley through several generations. Successive heroes struggle to restore the rights of the people to the trust fund set up by their ancestor Gebelaawi, usurped by embezzlers and tyrants. Mahfouz creates in all its detail a world on the frontier between the real and the imaginary. At a deeper level, the book is an allegory whose heroes relive the lives of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Moses, Jesus and Muhammed. Their appearance in a modern context invites the reader to see them as human beings relevant to the present day, not as remote sacred figures - to the consternation of some traditionalists. Most controversial is the significance of Gebelaawi, the immensely long-lived patriarch. Mahfouz himself has said that his character represents 'not God, but a certain idea of God that men have made', standing for the god of those who forget the absolute transcendence of God affirmed by Islam.]]> 464 Naguib Mahfouz 0385264739 Nema 4 3.99 1959
author: Naguib Mahfouz
name: Nema
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1959
rating: 4
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]]> 17212231 ‘Seek and ye shall find.��

With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.

A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city of Florence. Only Langdon’s knowledge of hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.

With only a few lines from Dante’s dark and epic masterpiece, The Inferno, to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebrated artefacts of the Renaissance �� sculptures, paintings, buildings �� to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat��

Set against an extraordinary landscape inspired by one of history’s most ominous literary classics, Inferno is Dan Brown’s most compelling and thought-provoking novel yet, a breathless race-against-time thriller that will grab you from page one and not let you go until you close the book.]]> 463 Dan Brown 0385537859 Nema 3 3.88 2013
author: Dan Brown
name: Nema
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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I will always admire, wholly and deeply, the amount of research Dan Brown does in his books. Unlike many writers, Brown just gives his events their full depth and history its right. However, character depth in this novel was a bit shallow and you could foresee a lot of events before they happen. Not the book I'd read again, but I'll always admire Brown's intelligent.
]]> 818108 Alternate cover edition here.

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.]]> 389 Haruki Murakami 0099448823 Nema 1 3.99 1987
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Nema
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1987
rating: 1
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I'm not finished with the novel, I just decided to drop it. At this rate of profanity, I can't bring my mind to read and enjoy it even if Murakami's writing style is good, which, in fact, didn't really tug me in. I'll give him another attempt though but with something that has nothing to do with love and/or relationships. I didn't think he'd get THIS graphic.
]]> 113148 Most of those so-called middlebrow readers would have readily admitted that the Iliad set a standard that could not be matched by What Makes Sammy Run? or Exodus. But any reader with common sense would also understand intuitively, immediately, that such comparisons are false, that the uses of reading are vast and variegated and that some of them are not addressed by Homer.]]> 96 Anna Quindlen 0345422783 Nema 0 to-read 3.83 1998
author: Anna Quindlen
name: Nema
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1998
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]]> 23456341 أنتما نفس الشخص..
قرأ عنك بطلنا بروايته أيضًا ، مثلما تفعل أنت به الآن. ذلك الكتاب الذي ابتاعه والذي تحمله أنت بين يديك الآن، هما نفس الكتاب. قرأ بطلنا هذا السطر مثلك دون أن يغلق كتابه أو يلقي به بأقرب سلة مهملات، فقط كإجراء احتياطي..
لم يصدق أيضًا أنه مجرد شخصية خيالية برواية يحملها بين يديه، حتى اقتربت نهايتهما.."]]> 284 عادل العجواني 9777700008 Nema 0 to-read 3.56 2014
author: عادل العجواني
name: Nema
average rating: 3.56
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]]> 4912857
The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows �� my new windows �� each evening its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets in my ear, that I could catch on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen��

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.

Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed �� a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.

Once again, Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in The Shadow of the Wind and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. Through a dizzyingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.
(jacket)]]> 531 Carlos Ruiz Zafón 0385528701 Nema 0 currently-reading 3.94 2008
author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
name: Nema
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2008
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]]> 31420100 336 نجيب الكيلاني 977255349X Nema 5 4.08 1988
author: نجيب الكيلاني
name: Nema
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> 5941319
عالم الن��ايات أحداث تتحرك في خطوط تتوازى فيها الوقائع والرموز هي على مستواها الوقائعي تعود بك إلى تجربة أهل الطيبة، انتمائهم إلى الجذور، وذهولهم الدائم ازاء الحب والموت. وهي على مستواها الرمزي تعود بك إلى اكتشاف الإنسان، أينما كان، انتماءه إلى هذه القوى الغامضة في الكون التي تجعل من الحب والموت أعنف وأخصب ما في الطبيعة كلها. والن��ايات مرتبة عميقة الأنغام للجنّة التي بقيت حاضرة في أذهان القرية. والروائي باختياره، الطيّبة، هذا الاسم الجميل لقريته هو اختيار رمزي، لأن كل قرية هي طيبة بالنسبة لأهلها... الطيبة تجمع بين معنى طيب المذاق والهواء والطبع، وبين معنى البقاء... فالطيبة هي أيضاً العائشة الحية.]]> 144 عبد الرحمن منيف 9771182579 Nema 3 3.42 1977
author: عبد الرحمن منيف
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average rating: 3.42
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rating: 3
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]]> 5900556 112 Gabriel García Márquez 2843052084 Nema 2 3.78 1981
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Nema
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1981
rating: 2
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]]> 433949 Booklist). In this book-length essay, he offers a full range of notes and gives rare insight into a veteran writer’s process by inviting the reader to watch over his shoulder as he creates the short story “The Governor’s Ball.��

“This is a story of a story,�� he begins, and proceeds to offer practical advice for creating a great story, from the first glimmer of an idea to the final sentence. Carlson urges the writer to refuse the outside distractions—a second cup of coffee, a troll through the dictionary—and attend to the necessity of uncertainty, the pleasures of an unfolding story.

“The Governor’s Ball”—included in its entirety—serves as a fascinating illustration of the detailed anatomy of a short story.]]> 112 Ron Carlson 1555974775 Nema 0 to-read 4.01 2007
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> 3390883
امام "الباب"، تطرح الاسئلة. لكن الاسئلة تبقى معلقة في فضاء شبه ذهني. فاستعارة الاسطورة القديمة، على غرار الشعر الذي كان يكتب في تلك المرحلة، هي اطار لطرح المشكلات الانسانية الكبرى، القدر (الذي يأخذ هنا شكل طابة) والموت، والحرية.]]> 72 Ghassan Kanafani Nema 3 لست هينًا يا غسان .. 3.68 1964
author: Ghassan Kanafani
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average rating: 3.68
book published: 1964
rating: 3
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لست هينًا يا غسان ..
]]> 29992277 115 طه سويدى 9777021291 Nema 3 بعض القصص انتهت نهايات لم أفهمها، والكثير منها اختلفت في أسلوب السرد، وهو ما ميّز الكتاب تميزًا جميلًا.
اللغة عذبة، وسلسة، ولكنها في الوقت ذاته ليست مبتذلة. الألفاظ جميلة ومبتكرة، والصور واضحة ومميزة. كتاب ينمّ عن مستقبل جميل لكاتبه.
الغريب أنني في نهاية المطاف أحسست بروح كنفاني، ولعلّني أحب القصص من هذا النوع، ولكنني بلا أدنى شك واثقة من تأثر الكاتب بأسلوب كنفاني.
وأخيرًا، ما لم يعجبني أن الاهتمام بالهمزات والياء والألف اللينة كان ضعيفًا، وبالتالي كانت بعض الكلمات مبهمة وغير واضحة. قد تكون هذه ملاحظة غير مهمة للبعض ولكن لها أهمية في القراءة لا تُترك.
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هو أحد الكتب التي ظلمها غلافها وعُنوانها. كتاب صغير الحجم ولكنه يحوي الكثير من الأفكار المعبّرة عن حياة الكثير منّا. أحببت كثيرًا قصة "في المعرض" لأنها تعبّر عن حبي لفلسطين ولهذه القضية.
بعض القصص انتهت نهايات لم أفهمها، والكثير منها اختلفت في أسلوب السرد، وهو ما ميّز الكتاب تميزًا جميلًا.
اللغة عذبة، وسلسة، ولكنها في الوقت ذاته ليست مبتذلة. الألفاظ جميلة ومبتكرة، والصور واضحة ومميزة. كتاب ينمّ عن مستقبل جميل لكاتبه.
الغريب أنني في نهاية المطاف أحسست بروح كنفاني، ولعلّني أحب القصص من هذا النوع، ولكنني بلا أدنى شك واثقة من تأثر الكاتب بأسلوب كنفاني.
وأخيرًا، ما لم يعجبني أن الاهتمام بالهمزات والياء والألف اللينة كان ضعيفًا، وبالتالي كانت بعض الكلمات مبهمة وغير واضحة. قد تكون هذه ملاحظة غير مهمة للبعض ولكن لها أهمية في القراءة لا تُترك.

]]> 79121 When he was alive, the Happy Prince lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow was not allowed to enter, and where he knew only pleasure.

Now, a gilded statute set atop a high column, he can see all the wretchedness of the poor, the sick and the lonely who inhabit the great city where he stands.

A swallow, hurrying to reach the warmth of Egypt before winter sets in, stops to rest between the feet of the Happy Prince. He is moved by the prince's description of the helplessness and hopelessness he sees all around him, and agrees to stay with the prince and to assist him in bringing comfort to those in need.

This story of sacrifice and redemption is a parable for our time, as it was for that time more than a hundred years ago when Oscar Wilde first published this moving tale.

Oscar Wilde (1854��1900) was an Irish writer of great wit and talent who was born Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde in 1854. He wrote a number of tales for children, but is perhaps best known for his 'Dorian Gray' (1890), 'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892), 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) and 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1896). Wilde died in Paris in 1900.]]> 32 Oscar Wilde 0525453679 Nema 0 4.22 1888
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name: Nema
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]]> 11438 Alternate-cover edition can be found here

In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated and beloved short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark.]]> 159 Raymond Carver 0679723056 Nema 0 to-read 4.11 1981
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name: Nema
average rating: 4.11
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]]> 10823681 250 محمد عناني Nema 0 to-read 3.85 1997
author: محمد عناني
name: Nema
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1997
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]]> 15729461 يعرض الكتاب خلاصة الجهد العلمي والعملي الذي بذله واحد من أبرز أعلام الترجمة وأغرزهم نتاجاً على مدى أكثر من نصف قرن في مجال دراسة وممارسة وتعليم الترجمة, وبذلك يشكل مرجعاً علمياً لدارسي ومدّرسي الترجمة, والمترجمين, واللغويين, وكل من يهتم بهذا الشكل المعقد من نشاط الإنسان.]]> 416 فيلين ناعوموفيتش كوميساروف 9948016068 Nema 0 to-read 3.56 2010
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name: Nema
average rating: 3.56
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]]> 8539803 344 أبو هلال العسكري Nema 0 to-read 4.37 1997
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name: Nema
average rating: 4.37
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]]> 23125919 10 محمد زاهد الكوثري Nema 0 to-read 2.81 2006
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name: Nema
average rating: 2.81
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]]> 12091888 وفي الحالة الجماهيرية تنخفض الطاقة على التفكير، ويذوب المغاير في المتجانس، بينما تطغى الخصائص التي تصدر عن اللاوعي.
وحتى لو كانت الجماهير علمانية، تبقى لديها ردود فعل دينية، تفضي بها إلى عبادة الزعيم، وإلى الخوف من بأسه، وإلى الإذعان الأعمى لمشيئته، فيصبح كلامه دوغما لا تناقش، وتنشأ الرغبة إلى تعميم هذه الدوغما. أما الذين لا يشاطرون الجماهير إعجابها بكلام الزعيم فيبحون هم الأعداء، لا جماهير من دون قائد كما لا قائد من دون جماهير. كتب لوبون قبل قرن من الزمن.
للتحميل: ]]> 200 Gustave Le Bon 1855168154 Nema 0 to-read 3.79 1895
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name: Nema
average rating: 3.79
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]]> 18521 A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.]]> 112 Virginia Woolf Nema 0 to-read 4.22 1929
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name: Nema
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]]> 9529 520 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Nema 5 This is one of the most amazing books I have ever read in my life. I couldn't put it down, literally, and I would be so excited if I was out waiting for a friend in a café and they were late because it meant extra time with the book. It was a page turner, a typical page-turner, and an outstanding one.

Every chapter ending in the book, every single chapter ending, would make you unable to put the book down and say "I'll continue tomorrow." I literally dreamt of it one or two nights when I was nearing the end.

At some point in the book, it seemed like reading four layers deep of literature. The book is about a book, and within it there would be stories within stories, and then back to the book within the book, before going back to [the] book. I don't know how Zafón managed to write four layers of literature, but he knew how to do it, and he is damn good at it.

There are all kinds of emotions in the book. And every page carries a beautiful quote to remember. This is a quotable book. It would also make a wonderful movie, even though I am sure filmmakers will omit beautiful details, just like every novel-based movie.

Zafón has a magical language, and the translator of the book made an amazing job in the translations. A masterpiece stays a masterpiece in all the languages of the world.

Nothing I ever say about this book could be expressed in words. I got so emotional a few pages before the end of the book. I was so attached to it I didn't ever want to finish it. I felt so lonely, and I wanted it to stay with me for some more time. I became friends with Daniel. I was mysteriously attached to Carax, and I loved Clara so much, not to mention Nuria, whom I will never forget.

This book is unforgettable. Thank you, Zafón, for giving me exactly what I need: layers of literature and endless inspiration.

Some favourite quotes:

"Memories are worse than bullets."

"There are worse prisons than words."

"Sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up."

"The day I die, All that was once mine will be yours, except my dreams."

"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."

"As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot."

Read this book!]]> 4.19 2001
author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
name: Nema
average rating: 4.19
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rating: 5
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Mesmerizing. Magical. Extraordinary. It will move you, send shivers down your spine, thrill you, scare you, and get you drunk on words.
This is one of the most amazing books I have ever read in my life. I couldn't put it down, literally, and I would be so excited if I was out waiting for a friend in a café and they were late because it meant extra time with the book. It was a page turner, a typical page-turner, and an outstanding one.

Every chapter ending in the book, every single chapter ending, would make you unable to put the book down and say "I'll continue tomorrow." I literally dreamt of it one or two nights when I was nearing the end.

At some point in the book, it seemed like reading four layers deep of literature. The book is about a book, and within it there would be stories within stories, and then back to the book within the book, before going back to [the] book. I don't know how Zafón managed to write four layers of literature, but he knew how to do it, and he is damn good at it.

There are all kinds of emotions in the book. And every page carries a beautiful quote to remember. This is a quotable book. It would also make a wonderful movie, even though I am sure filmmakers will omit beautiful details, just like every novel-based movie.

Zafón has a magical language, and the translator of the book made an amazing job in the translations. A masterpiece stays a masterpiece in all the languages of the world.

Nothing I ever say about this book could be expressed in words. I got so emotional a few pages before the end of the book. I was so attached to it I didn't ever want to finish it. I felt so lonely, and I wanted it to stay with me for some more time. I became friends with Daniel. I was mysteriously attached to Carax, and I loved Clara so much, not to mention Nuria, whom I will never forget.

This book is unforgettable. Thank you, Zafón, for giving me exactly what I need: layers of literature and endless inspiration.

Some favourite quotes:

"Memories are worse than bullets."

"There are worse prisons than words."

"Sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up."

"The day I die, All that was once mine will be yours, except my dreams."

"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."

"As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot."

Read this book!
]]> 13549751
This book is a humble effort to expound upon the true conceptualization of human psychology based upon the Qur'an and Sunnah. Moreover, Dr. Utz includes specific references to scientific research that corresponds to, and builds upon, what is already known from revelation.]]> 352 Aisha Utz Nema 0 to-read 3.95 2011
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name: Nema
average rating: 3.95
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]]> 9695792
قد ضمن في هذه الرسالة غالي النصح وأطيب الإرشاد وأثر فيها من الإرشاد والتوجيه والنهي والتحذير. وأصل هذه الرسالة مخطوطه قابلها المحقق رحمه الله بما توفر من نسخ, فعلق عليها ما يزيدها بياناً ونفعاً وعزى الآيات الكريمات إلى سورها وموقعها منها, كما خرج الأحاديث الشريفة وترجم للمؤلف ترجمة مستوفاة تعرف بمكانته.]]> 334 الحارث بن أسد المحاسبي Nema 0 4.34 1964
author: الحارث بن أسد المحاسبي
name: Nema
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1964
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/11/14
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هناك نوع من الكتب يجب أن تُدرس، ولا يصحّ لها تقييم أو رأي من أمثالنا.
]]> 6925532 بيدك المرتجفة التي أصبحت أكثر برودة عندما أخرجتها من تحت الغطاء حاولت أن تمسك بطرف الليل، وتلقي بالعتمة بعيداً، ولكن يديك عادتا فارغتين، تكاد مفاصلهما أن تتحجر كالثلج، وأن تنكسر". في سردياته يخلق إبراهيم نصر الله جغرافية تخيلية مرعبة تلغي التاريخ والهوية والزمن، كما تلغي ثنائية الواقع والوهم أو الحلم، هناك يملك الإنسان تاريخاً شخصياً، أو هوية متميزة، بل أنه وبشكل فاجع لا يملك حتى موته الخاص. وفي هذه الرواية الكابوس تتفجر اللغة متشظية، متوترة، مجترحة تخترق الصفحات كالآسنة المشتعلة في عالم يعد ممكناً للبطولة بالمعنى الذي تحمله في الرواية الكلاسيكية
يمكن تحميلها من هنا

]]> 166 Ibrahim Nasrallah 6140100437 Nema 3
رواية ليس فيها إلا المكان، ينعدم فيها الزمان والهوية والحياة وربما الموت أيضًا. أو ربما هي رواية بطلها الموت، والبؤس والشتات والفراغ.
يذكرني إبراهيم نصر الله بحسين البرغوثي، كما فيه شيءٌ من غسان كنفاني، وفيه من كلٍ منا شيء غريب. قد يكون التيه أو تعدد الشخصيات داخل شخص واحد.

هو بالفعل كتاب مرهق ذهنيًا ولكنه من شدة غرابته سيصعب عليك تركه حتى النهاية.
]]> 3.21 1985
author: Ibrahim Nasrallah
name: Nema
average rating: 3.21
book published: 1985
rating: 3
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كتابٌ آخر مجنون لا يُعجب به إلا المجانين.

رواية ليس فيها إلا المكان، ينعدم فيها الزمان والهوية والحياة وربما الموت أيضًا. أو ربما هي رواية بطلها الموت، والبؤس والشتات والفراغ.
يذكرني إبراهيم نصر الله بحسين البرغوثي، كما فيه شيءٌ من غسان كنفاني، وفيه من كلٍ منا شيء غريب. قد يكون التيه أو تعدد الشخصيات داخل شخص واحد.

هو بالفعل كتاب مرهق ذهنيًا ولكنه من شدة غرابته سيصعب عليك تركه حتى النهاية.

]]> 20821097
One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything.

He fell in love.

Three years and almost one thousand poems later, Tyler is now known as the creator of the Typewriter a striking collection of poems typed onto found scraps of paper or created via blackout method. Chasers of the Light features some of his most insightful and beautifully worded pieces of work—poems that illuminate grand gestures and small glimpses, poems that celebrate the beauty of a life spent chasing the light.]]> 144 Tyler Knott Gregson 0399169733 Nema 3
Lovely book. ]]> 4.18 2014
author: Tyler Knott Gregson
name: Nema
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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This is such a simple yet deep book. Some pieces were below average, while others wowed me! This is a book of someone who knows how to express deeply in the simplest words, and yet lets love linger in every line even if it wasn't intended.

Lovely book.
]]> 18663429 181 Abu Hamid al-Ghazali Nema 0 4.12
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name: Nema
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]]> 15990729 93 ابن الجوزي Nema 0 to-read 4.08
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]]> 5042295 What the Ancients Did for Us
What do coffee beans, torpedoes, surgical scalpels, arches, and observatories all have in common?
Were Leonardo da Vinci’s flight ideas originals?
Who devised the casing for pill capsules, and where did Fibonacci learn to flex his mathematical fingers?
The answers to these questions and more can be found in this book.
1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World presents an excellent overview of Muslim heritage written to appeal to the everyday reader and to amaze and redefine many people's current assumptions of medieval times and of their history and roots.
This is an essential introduction to the great epoch of Muslim civilization. Readers now have access to one thousand years of missing history, covering medicine, technology, economics, civilization, the environment, and much more. From Spain to China, scholars of different genders, cultures, and various faiths worked together to build upon the knowledge of ancient civilization.
Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, the contributions were selected to give the reader reassurance and confidence that the facts presented in the book are from the most reliable and unbiased academic sources.
Salim T S Al-Hassani is professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and professorial fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Cultures at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
Sir Roland Jackson is the chief executive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

]]> 376 Salim T.S. Al-Hassani 0955242614 Nema 0 to-read 4.49 2006
author: Salim T.S. Al-Hassani
name: Nema
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2006
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]]> 6577401 حوى الجزء الأول على بابين:
- تاريخ اللغة ونشأتها وما يتصل بذلك..
- تاريخ الرواية والمشاهير من الرواة..
وحوى الجزء الثاني بابًا واحدًا:
هو الباب الثالث وفيه منزلة القرآن الكريم من اللغة وإعجازه وتاريخه وقد سماه الرافعي "إعجاز القرآن والبلاغة النبوية"..
الجزء الثالث والأخير به بقية الأبواب ما عدا الرابع والثامن والتاسع والثاني عشر..ـ


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]]> 927 مصطفى صادق الرافعي 9953432961 Nema 0 to-read 4.25 1911
author: مصطفى صادق الرافعي
name: Nema
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1911
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]]> 15824049
قال فيه ابن كثير: (من أجَلِّ مصنفاته وأعظمها، وقد أبان فيه عن علم وبصيرة جيدة) لسان الميزان 3\286، وقال فيه الذهبي: (إنه أجاد فيه وبرَّز) شذرات الذهب 3\203.

وقد اطلع عليه العلامة المرحوم الشيخ زاهد الكوثري وقال أنه من أفضل ما صُنِّف في الدفاع عن الإسلام إزاء الدهريين، ومنكري النبوة، والثنوية، والنصارى، واليهود، والصابئة، وأصناف الملاحدة، والرافضة والباطنية، وقال: (ولم نر ما يقارب كتاب تثبيت دلائل النبوة للقاضي، في قوة الاحتجاج وحسن الصياغة، في دفع شكوك المتشككين) "مقدمة الشيخ زاهد لكتاب تبيين كذب المفتري ص 18".

وقد كان محل ثناء كبير من علماء المسلمين كما في العقد المذهب لابن الملقن ورقة33 ظ، وابن حجر في اللسان 3: 386، وابن شهبه في طبقاته 16 ط، وابن تيمية في منهاج السنة ص 9، ويعتبر الكتاب الأول حتى الآن من الكتب التي أُلِّفت في هذا الموضوع.]]> 662 Nema 0 to-read 3.81 999
author: Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad - القاضي عبد الجبار
name: Nema
average rating: 3.81
book published: 999
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]]> 15778401 �ĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶĶ�

هذا كتاب الرعاية لحقوق الله عزّ وجل وضع فيه مؤلفه "الحارث المحاسبي" منهاجاً للسالكين الراغبين في مرضاة الله عزّ وجل. وفيه حثٌ على تقوى الله والخشية منه باتباع ما أمر به، واجتناب ما نهى عنه مراقبته في السرّ والعلانية، وترغيب في نبذ علائق الإنسان بالدنيا بالمسارعة في التوبة والإنابة قبل أن يأزف الرحيل ويحين الأجل ويقول المؤلف ن ذلك لا يكون إلا بترك التسويق والإصرار والتوجه إلى الله عز وجل بقلب سليم وأشعار النفس حقيقة الخوف من الله تعالى، ومحاسبتها وتجنب العجب والكِبر وإخلاص العمل بترك الرياء، والحذر من مكائد الشيطان بعدم الاغترار بالعبادات المفروضة والنافلة، أو بالعلم والفقه كل ذلك على طريقة القوم أو القوم على طريقته والزهد في الدنيا شيء يرغب فيه، وما كان منه مشكاة النبوة فيحمد ويتبع، أما الغلو بدعوى الزهد فهو ذميم. وقد ذيل الكتاب بتحقيق لطيف هدفه ضبط النفس وتخريج الأحاديث التي يتضمنها هذا الكتاب

رابط التحميل:
]]> 424 الحارث بن أسد المحاسبي Nema 0 to-read 4.09 1996
author: الحارث بن أسد المحاسبي
name: Nema
average rating: 4.09
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]]> 3852939 عبّر المنفلوطي في هذا الكتاب عمّا يجيش في مجتمعه من مشكلات انقسم حولها
الرأي بين مؤيد ورافض، كمسألة الحجاب، ومسألة محاكاة المتفرنجين، وما ساد المجتمع من مفاسد خلّفها التفاوت الطبقي والإستعمار الأجنبي. وعبّر عما يجيش في نفوس الشباب من أشواق وأحزان وآلام، وكانت قصصه بمضمونها قطرات من الدمع يسكبها بين أيدي القرّاء. وفي مقدمة العبرات يصور ذلك بقوله: الأشقياء في الدنيا كثر، وليس في استطاعة بائس مثلي أن يمحو بؤسهم وشقائهم، فلا أقل من أن أسكب بين أيديهم هذه العبرات، علّهم يجدون في بكائي تعزية وسلوى. وفي كل ما كتب جاءت كتابات المنفلوطي إرشاد للناشئة وللقرّاء جميعاً، وتوجيه غير مباشر إلى التحلي بالفضائل الإنسانية والأخلاق الحميدة، وهو جانب مهم كثيراً مانراه في أدب المنفلوطي.]]> 181 مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي 9953390711 Nema 4 وعلى الرغم من هذا، فأنا لا أتفق مع من قالوا إن القصص جميعها كانت قصص حب، فكثير منها كان له أكثر من مغزى، إن لم يكن جميعها.

لغة المنفلوطي تذكرني كثيرًا بالرافعي وأدبه وتعبيراته، رغم أنّي رأيت في كتب الرافعي تعبيرات أسمى وأجمل. لكن كلاهما يستوحي ألفاظًا من القرءان الكريم ويستخدم أوصافًا عذبة رائعة.
ربما قد أميل ، لو قارنت بينهما، إلى الرافعي أكثر، ولكن كلًا
منهما له جمال خاص.
عرفت الكثير من الألفاظ الجديدة عليّ، وهذا بالتحديد ما أحب الكتب بسببه، ما يضيف جديدًا إلى قاموسي الضئيل.

آمل أن يكون الكتاب التالي له ليس بهذا البؤس، رغم جماله.
]]> 3.95 1948
author: مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي
name: Nema
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1948
rating: 4
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هو فعلًا اسم على مسمى. هذا الكتاب شديد البؤس والحزن، ولا تخلو قصة واحدة من دموع شخصياتها وقارئها.
وعلى الرغم من هذا، فأنا لا أتفق مع من قالوا إن القصص جميعها كانت قصص حب، فكثير منها كان له أكثر من مغزى، إن لم يكن جميعها.

لغة المنفلوطي تذكرني كثيرًا بالرافعي وأدبه وتعبيراته، رغم أنّي رأيت في كتب الرافعي تعبيرات أسمى وأجمل. لكن كلاهما يستوحي ألفاظًا من القرءان الكريم ويستخدم أوصافًا عذبة رائعة.
ربما قد أميل ، لو قارنت بينهما، إلى الرافعي أكثر، ولكن كلًا
منهما له جمال خاص.
عرفت الكثير من الألفاظ الجديدة عليّ، وهذا بالتحديد ما أحب الكتب بسببه، ما يضيف جديدًا إلى قاموسي الضئيل.

آمل أن يكون الكتاب التالي له ليس بهذا البؤس، رغم جماله.

]]> 8497492 Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0375725849 (9780375725845)

In the slums of 18th-century Paris a baby is born. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille clings to life with an iron will, growing into a dark and sinister young man who, although he has no scent of his own, possesses an incomparable sense of smell. He apprentices himself to a perfumer and quickly masters the ancient art of mixing flowers, herbs, and oils. But his quest to create the "ultimate perfume" leads him to commit a series of brutal murders until no woman can feel safe as his final horrifying secret is revealed.]]> 255 Patrick Süskind Nema 2 3.85 1985
author: Patrick Süskind
name: Nema
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1985
rating: 2
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]]> 8857360 150 محمد حياة السندي المدني Nema 2 4.27
author: محمد حياة السندي المدني
name: Nema
average rating: 4.27
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rating: 2
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لا أنصح بهذا الكتاب إذ إنه لا يعطي شرحًا مفصلًا كما يجب وإنما يكمل الكلام بدون شرح العبارات الصعبة.
]]> 13162977

معركة �� بدأت منذ ألف وثلاثمائة سنة، وما تزال حتى اليوم ناشبة ��
الذَّرَّاتُ التي نفضَتها رمال الجزيرة العربية على أرض البشر منذ ارتجت بتلك الزلزلة العُظمى، لم يزل فيها من قوة الاشتعال بروق وصواعق ��
لهداية البشرية الضالة، زحفت هذه الجحافل من المشرق �� منذ التاريخ البعيد �� ولم تزل حتى اليوم تناضل ��
الحرب سجال �� ولكن العاقبة لنا!




المجتمع الذي كان يؤمن بقداسة العِرق والنسب، فجعل العربي الأصيل طبقة فوق الناس؛ بناءً على ذلك لم يكن ليولي أمر المسلمين الموالي، أو الهجناء الذين يمتُّون بنسب مختلط إلى أعداء العرب. فها هو «مَسلمة بن عبد الملك بن مروان» يحظى في النفوس بالمكانة والهيبة، ويراه كثيرون الأكفأ بالولاية من غيره، إلا أن نسب الأمومة الرومي يمنعه؛ فيخرج لحصار «القسطنطينية» أملًا في عرشها. لم يعلم «مَسلمة» أن فتاتين �� «قسطنطين» غَدوتا أسيرتين لدى العرب قبل ذلك بزمان؛ وأن كلتيهما أنجبت ولدًا خرج في قتال أهله دون أن يعلم بذلك؛ إلا أنه يبقى للعلاقات الإنسانية دستورٌ يغلب كافة دساتير الحكم والحرب. يُسطِّر «محمد سعيد العريان» خُطى فتح العرب �� «القسطنطينية» بالقرن الهجري الأول، في رواية تعد مدخلًا قيِّمًا لاستكشاف المجتمع العربي في العصر الأموي.]]> محمد سعيد العريان Nema 3 3.68
author: محمد سعيد العريان
name: Nema
average rating: 3.68
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]]> 436982 Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov �� Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821��1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes �� moral, religious, political and social �� that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works. Notes from the Underground, then, aside from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination, profundity and uncanny psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of the nineteenth century. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction.]]> 96 Fyodor Dostoevsky Nema 4 This is the kinda book that comes from the writer's real thoughts not just some imaginary characters or things. I also like the fact that it was not protagonist-biased.
A very intelligent noveol.]]> 4.09 1864
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Nema
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1864
rating: 4
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Dostoyevsky's mind is HUGE and BRILLIANT. I wouldn't imagine someone with these kind of insane, frenzied thoughts. The boring parts of this novel were the conversations. I pretty much enjoyed all the parts of his speaking to himself/the reader.
This is the kinda book that comes from the writer's real thoughts not just some imaginary characters or things. I also like the fact that it was not protagonist-biased.
A very intelligent noveol.
]]> 6539273 صدر هذا الكتاب في طبعته الأولى عام 1917م
ويقول في مقدمة الطبعة:
هذا كتاب حاولت أن اكسوا الفقر من صفحاته مرقعة جديدة ... فقد والله بليت أثواب هذا الفقر وإنها لتنسدل على أركانه مزقا متهدلة يمشي بعضها في بعض وانه ليلفقها بخيوط من الدمع..
ويمسكها برقع من الأكباد ..ويشد بالقطع المتناثرة من حسرة إلى أمل.. وأمل إلى خيبة.. وخيبة إلى هم..

تتلخص موضوعات الكتاب "بالدين والعلم والإيمان والقدر والفقر والحظ والحب والجمال والحرب والشك والخير والنظام الاجتماعي"
يقول عنه الرافعي رحمه الله : هذا كتاب المساكين فمن لم يكن مسكينا
لا يقرؤه لأنه لا يفهمه .. ومن كان
مسكينا فحسبي به قارئا والسلام..

الكلام في هذا الكتاب على لسان شيخ من قرية مصرية اسمه علي –تحد�� على لسانه في عدة مقلات أخرى بعد ذلك من كتبه- هذا الشيخ قد تولى الكفاف الشديد مصحوبا بأطياف السعادة التي تنبعث من قناعته الكلية بهذه الحياة..]]> 280 مصطفى صادق الرافعي Nema 3 4.14 1917
author: مصطفى صادق الرافعي
name: Nema
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1917
rating: 3
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لا يوجد كتاب سيء للرافعي :) يكفي لغته الساحرة وجمال تعبيراته الفصيحة.
]]> 893136
YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.

1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.

Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with her foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.

SOME MORE IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH.

It's a small story, about:
a girl
an accordionist
some fanatical Germans
a Jewish fistfighter
and quite a lot of thievery.

ANOTHER THING YOU SHOULD KNOW:

DEATH WILL VISIT THE BOOK THIEF THREE TIMES.]]> 554 Markus Zusak 0552773891 Nema 5 The words, why did they have to exist? we speak a thousand words, write a thousand poems or stories, and yet our emotions are still kept inside, somewhere deep down our souls where only people who have gone through exactly the same things we've gone through, would feel us, otherwise, words are nonexistent no matter how much you say.
This novel made me a prisoner of words, yet at the same time words are sometimes my prisoner. It's a feeling most writers go through, and it's the feeling Liesel had to go through, too.
Loss, is an essential factor in this novel, and with Death narrating, loss is everything. Yet even death has a heart.
I can quote this novel for the rest of my life and not get bored or feel the cliches, but most of all, I think everyone should read this novel, if for anything it would be for the need to know that we are not alone.
This novel will always live in me. Always.

]]> 4.43 2005
author: Markus Zusak
name: Nema
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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I have read this novel over half a year ago, and it's hard to say that it doesn't affect almost every day of my life. I have to admit I've never let words get that much to me like the words in this novel have.
The words, why did they have to exist? we speak a thousand words, write a thousand poems or stories, and yet our emotions are still kept inside, somewhere deep down our souls where only people who have gone through exactly the same things we've gone through, would feel us, otherwise, words are nonexistent no matter how much you say.
This novel made me a prisoner of words, yet at the same time words are sometimes my prisoner. It's a feeling most writers go through, and it's the feeling Liesel had to go through, too.
Loss, is an essential factor in this novel, and with Death narrating, loss is everything. Yet even death has a heart.
I can quote this novel for the rest of my life and not get bored or feel the cliches, but most of all, I think everyone should read this novel, if for anything it would be for the need to know that we are not alone.
This novel will always live in me. Always.


]]> 18695189 142 Adam J. Silverstein 9777193238 Nema 3
ولكنه حتمًا كتاب مهم وله رأي حيادي إلى حدٍ كبير، كما أنه جميل أن ترى التاريخ الإسلامي من منظور غير المسلمين.]]> 3.06 2009
author: Adam J. Silverstein
name: Nema
average rating: 3.06
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2015/01/27
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لا أعلم إن كان التاريخ الإسلامي لم تصلح له مقدمة "قصيرة جدًا" أم إنني أنا التي لم أستوعب المغزى. الكتاب به معلومات رائعة ولكن تسلسل الأحداث في كثير من الأحيان شتت الأفكار في مخيلتي فاختلطت الكثير من الأحداث ببعضها.

ولكنه حتمًا كتاب مهم وله رأي حيادي إلى حدٍ كبير، كما أنه جميل أن ترى التاريخ الإسلامي من منظور غير المسلمين.
]]> 17287009 A beautiful, heartfelt, funny and inspiring collection of photographs capturing the spirit of a city

In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City.  Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in an attempt to capture New Yorkers and their stories.  The result of these efforts was a vibrant blog he called "Humans of New York," in which his photos were featured alongside quotes and anecdotes. 

Humans of New York is the book inspired by the Internet sensation. With four hundred color photos, including exclusive portraits and all-new stories, Humans of New York is a stunning collection of images that showcases the outsized personalities of New York.

Surprising and moving, Humans of New York is a celebration of individuality and a tribute to the spirit of the city.]]> 304 Brandon Stanton 1250038820 Nema 5 4.49 2013
author: Brandon Stanton
name: Nema
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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Beautifully "humane." And that's that.
]]> 820689 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780099740919

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire �� neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first-century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.]]> 324 Margaret Atwood Nema 4 tasting them, to make sure the reader can relish. She is an artist. I cannot seem to understand why this book is not as well-known as many other books. This is heartfelt literature.
The four stars are definitely for Atwood's style of writing. But there is another beautiful thing in there: the plot twist.
I won't spoil this or anything. But the plot twist in this novel was huge. It was so unexpected. There was nothing you could actually see coming when she did this, so she chose the perfect chapter to put her twist in. It was still shocking, but brilliant. I think this is the first novel I read which had this insane twist.
Some parts were a bit vague though. Many parts were just hard to connect to the plot but by the end most of them became clearer.

Atwood reminded me a little of Virginia Woolf; she doesn't just write a story, but she draws something. She treats her words like flowers with different colors and different names. I am completely fascinated by her style of writing.
The plot of this novel was about a totalitarian rule. However, it was a little different than 1984 and all the other dystopian novels. It was rather, well, how do you put this in words, clinging for hope maybe? Or clenching the past. It was different.

I connected with the words more than I connected with the main character. Although I loved her amazing courage and sometimes her fear of telling the reader another story. She was daring. The one thing I don't seem to understand, though, is the name, or the names. I didn't understand what was behind the "Off" as the first syllable of each name: Offred, Offglen, and so on.

This is a story you should read among the dystopian novels, and it is also a novel of true literature in your hands. Read it.

Quotes:

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.��

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.��

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.��
]]> 4.17 1985
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Nema
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1985
rating: 4
read at: 2014/12/29
date added: 2014/12/29
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Atwood is very careful with her words. She crafts them so gently, so smoothly and so delicately, as if she's portraying something, a beautiful picture. She tiptoes on her words making you think she's scared she'd distort them somehow. Sometimes it feels like she is tasting them, to make sure the reader can relish. She is an artist. I cannot seem to understand why this book is not as well-known as many other books. This is heartfelt literature.
The four stars are definitely for Atwood's style of writing. But there is another beautiful thing in there: the plot twist.
I won't spoil this or anything. But the plot twist in this novel was huge. It was so unexpected. There was nothing you could actually see coming when she did this, so she chose the perfect chapter to put her twist in. It was still shocking, but brilliant. I think this is the first novel I read which had this insane twist.
Some parts were a bit vague though. Many parts were just hard to connect to the plot but by the end most of them became clearer.

Atwood reminded me a little of Virginia Woolf; she doesn't just write a story, but she draws something. She treats her words like flowers with different colors and different names. I am completely fascinated by her style of writing.
The plot of this novel was about a totalitarian rule. However, it was a little different than 1984 and all the other dystopian novels. It was rather, well, how do you put this in words, clinging for hope maybe? Or clenching the past. It was different.

I connected with the words more than I connected with the main character. Although I loved her amazing courage and sometimes her fear of telling the reader another story. She was daring. The one thing I don't seem to understand, though, is the name, or the names. I didn't understand what was behind the "Off" as the first syllable of each name: Offred, Offglen, and so on.

This is a story you should read among the dystopian novels, and it is also a novel of true literature in your hands. Read it.

Quotes:

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.��

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.��

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.��

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name: Nema
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1987
rating: 2
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هذه القصة مختلفة أشد الاختلاف عن قصص غسان جميعها. لا أستطيع أن أطلق عليها "بوليسية" وهي بالتأكيد لا تمت بصلة لما اعتدت أن اقرأه لكنفاني. ولم يعجبني إقحامه للعلاقات "الجسدية" في القصة، على العكس تماماً لما اعتدته من كنفاني.


]]> 4723930 142 عبد الله بن المقفع Nema 0 4.19 750
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name: Nema
average rating: 4.19
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]]> 12391521
The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath.

Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.]]> 275 Jon Ronson 1594485755 Nema 5 Along the pages you bit by bit find out that we all can be psychopaths even for just a split of a second, that we all can fit into Hare's PCL-R Checklist, and that some of us might actually score higher than they think.

The things that really intrigued me in this book were how people like Bob Hare who created the PCL-R Checklist, and Robert Spitzer were so mad about creating such checklists that the latter's was as long as 800 pages or more. How they were so keen on labeling the individuals of the society with every possible mental disorder possible, that if you had some mood swings you're deemed bipolar, that if you avoided some crowd you'd be suffering antisocial disorder. So by the end of the day you've checked in every disorder existed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Like one of the deemed psychopaths said in the book " I know people are looking out for 'nonverbal clues' to my mental state. Psychiatrists love 'nonverbal clues.' They love to analyze body movements. But that's really hard for the person who is trying to act sane. How do you sit in a sane way? How do you cross your legs in a sane way? And you know they're really paying attention. So you get self-conscious. You try to smile in a sane way. But it's just . . . It's just . . . impossible."

And then you again realize that according to this checklist, all CEOs in all big companies will score very high on the list. And that "plenty of people dehumanize others—find ways to eradicate empathy and remorse from their day jobs—so they can perform their jobs better. That's presumably why medical students tend to throw human cadavers at each other for a joke, and so on."

So, despite my skepticism and criticism against this 'madness' industry, this book is a must-read for any one who wants to understand a bit about how mental institutions actually work and how deceitful psychiatry might seem to be. It's also very informative and hard to put down once you have started reading.

I could read this book over and over again without getting even slightly bored. It is extremely interesting and jaw-dropping shocking sometimes that you will sometimes sympathize with some deemed psychopaths.

]]> 3.97 2011
author: Jon Ronson
name: Nema
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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Before this book, I thought psychotherapy and psychiatry are not so trustworthy. Every story in this book could tell that there is a 70% chance you will be misdiagnosed if you ever thought of consulting a specialist.
Along the pages you bit by bit find out that we all can be psychopaths even for just a split of a second, that we all can fit into Hare's PCL-R Checklist, and that some of us might actually score higher than they think.

The things that really intrigued me in this book were how people like Bob Hare who created the PCL-R Checklist, and Robert Spitzer were so mad about creating such checklists that the latter's was as long as 800 pages or more. How they were so keen on labeling the individuals of the society with every possible mental disorder possible, that if you had some mood swings you're deemed bipolar, that if you avoided some crowd you'd be suffering antisocial disorder. So by the end of the day you've checked in every disorder existed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Like one of the deemed psychopaths said in the book " I know people are looking out for 'nonverbal clues' to my mental state. Psychiatrists love 'nonverbal clues.' They love to analyze body movements. But that's really hard for the person who is trying to act sane. How do you sit in a sane way? How do you cross your legs in a sane way? And you know they're really paying attention. So you get self-conscious. You try to smile in a sane way. But it's just . . . It's just . . . impossible."

And then you again realize that according to this checklist, all CEOs in all big companies will score very high on the list. And that "plenty of people dehumanize others—find ways to eradicate empathy and remorse from their day jobs—so they can perform their jobs better. That's presumably why medical students tend to throw human cadavers at each other for a joke, and so on."

So, despite my skepticism and criticism against this 'madness' industry, this book is a must-read for any one who wants to understand a bit about how mental institutions actually work and how deceitful psychiatry might seem to be. It's also very informative and hard to put down once you have started reading.

I could read this book over and over again without getting even slightly bored. It is extremely interesting and jaw-dropping shocking sometimes that you will sometimes sympathize with some deemed psychopaths.


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إن كتاب (قواعد التصوف) مع صغر حجمه هو من أجل ما ألف في التصوف, أظهر فيه مؤلفه جزاه الله خيراً حقيقة مذهب أهل التصوف على وجه يجمع بين الحقيقة والشريعة, وبيّن أن مذهبهم قائم على أصول وقواعد شرعية منضبطة, ولئن شذ عنها بعض من نسب إليهم فلا يعني ذلك إنكار المذهب جملة, قال في القاعدة الخامسة والثلاثين: (فغلاة المتصوفة كأهل الأهواء من الأصوليين, وكالمطعون عليهم من المتفقهين, ويرد قولهم, ويجتنب فعلهم, ولا يترك المذهب الحق الثابت بنسبتهم له, وظهورهم فيه).]]> أحمد زروق Nema 0 to-read 4.02
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]]> 6996958 ~
وهذا الكتاب يتحدث به المؤلف عن شهر رمضان، الذي يُشبّهه بالضيف، والذي يترقبه الناس بلهفة ويستقبلونه بالترحاب، يقدّمون له أطيبَ المآكل، ويسهرون من أجله... ولا شيء فوقَ ذلك. ولأنه لم يأتِ من أجل ذلك، فإن ذلك كله لا يعنيه..
رمضان ليس الانقطاع عما لذ وطاب، ولا الإغراق الحاصل فيهما.. إنه الولادة الجديدة التي تنتظرنا كلَّ عام على ناصيةٍ من نواصي حياتنا وأعمارنا..
إنه تجديد المعاني في كل ما نفعله طيلة السنة. إنه فرصة -مليئة بالمغريات والتنزيلات- من أجل أن نفهم ما يجب أن نفعله طيلة السنة..ـ]]> 84 أحمد خيري العمري 159239471X Nema 0 to-read 3.94 2005
author: أحمد خيري العمري
name: Nema
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]]> 7433963
كل ما بيدي وأنا أكبر هو أن أعي كيف ينحتني هذا الكبر. ما الذي يأخذه مني؟ وما الذي يضفيه علي؟ وأين سأجد نفسي عندما ينتهي الدرب، وترف الملائكة بأجنحتها من حولي، ويصير ما أعيه خارج الكلمات وأكبر منها؟ وكم سأخسر حينها أنا التي آمنت أن الحياة خسران طويل؟

إنني أكبر ..
ومع ذلك فإنَّ كتابتي هذه ليست عدّاً لأعوامي ولا إحصاءً لها ..
لقد أدركتُ �� غيرَ متأخرةٍ على ما يبدو ��
أن قيمة وقتي فيما عرفتُه وأعرفه وسأعرفه عني وعن العالم من حولي
وأنَّ انشغالي بإحصاء السنين سيحرمني فرصة أن أعرف جديداً ..
وكلُّ ما أحياه الآن هو : نَهمُ أن أعرف .
لم أعد أريد شيئاً غير أن أعرف أكثر
كي أعيَ مبلغَ جهلي الفادح .. فأحزنَ أكثر مما حزنتُ !
إن الذي يعرف ينأى كثيراً عن صخب السطح وضجيجه ..
يغور وحيداً ..
وقد يفزع ..
وقد يتوحش ..
وقد يألم ..
بل إنه سيألم
لكنه أبداً لا ولن يؤذي !
أجل ، من يعرف لا يؤذي
لأن الإيذاء خسارة في الروح والوقت
ولأن الإيذاء ضعف
ولأن الإيذاء هزيمة متأخرة
ومن يعرف لا يحب أن يخسر ، ولا أن يُهزَم !
إن الذي يعرف كذلك قادر على اصطناع بهجته الخاصة فوق رملٍ يرتعب من الحياة حين تتوق إلى التعبير عن نفسها . قادر على أن يعذر ، وأن يمضي إلى الأمام ، فإن التفتَ فإنه سيلتفتُ لأن الحنين ينمو مع الوقت ، ولأن التفاتةً إلى الوراء لا تعني �� حينئذٍ- أكثر من سلامِ العابرِ للعابر ؛ وجُلُّ الحياة �� حينما أتأملها �� عابرٌ يُحَيّي عابراً ..
وأنا لا أريد أن أعبر دون أن أعرفَ كل ما يمكنني أن أعرفه !]]> 63 ليلى الجهني 9953891354 Nema 0 to-read 3.63 2009
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]]> 11512161 458 محمد المنسي قنديل 977092959X Nema 3
ولكن من العدل القول إن أسلوب الكتابة كان أكثر من رائع وفي فصول لم أكن أودّ أن أترك الرواية ولو للحظة. أمضيت ساعات متتالية في قراءتها على أمل أن أشبع مع قراءتي عن تاريخ هذه البلاد وعن الطبيعة الساحرة بها، ولكنني قد أحتاج إلى كتب أخرى للقراءة عن هذا الجزء من العالم.
لغة الكاتب كانت أكثر من جميلة كما أن جمالياته في التعبير عن الحركة والألوان والعواطف (خاصة الحركة والألوان) كانت شديدة السحر والروعة.

إلا أن إقحامه للجانب الجنسي كان شديد السوء. على عكس رضوى عاشور التي تعطي للقارئ نبذة بدون أي كلمات أو وصف جسدي، يستمتع هذا الكاتب بإقحام البذاءة في الأحداث والتي لم أحس في أيٍ منها بأن وجودها كان ضروريًا للأحداث.

ورغم كل هذا إلا أنني استمتعت بقصصه عن البخاري والنقشبندي والجزء التاريخي للبلاد. مما بعث إليّ سحرها حتى تمنيت أن أزورها يومًا ما.

رواية، رغم اختلافي على الجزء الإباحي فيها والجزء المصري الممل، إلا أنها رائعة لغويًا وتاريخيًا.]]> 3.82 2004
author: محمد المنسي قنديل
name: Nema
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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فصول الرواية التي احتوت الجانب المصري من القصة هي ما أفسد الرواية. كان يكفي للمنسي قنديل أن يذكر تاريخ وطبيعة بلاد ما وراء النهر بهذا الشكل الساحر المذهل، ولكنه أفسد كل شيء بهذا الجزء الأخير.

ولكن من العدل القول إن أسلوب الكتابة كان أكثر من رائع وفي فصول لم أكن أودّ أن أترك الرواية ولو للحظة. أمضيت ساعات متتالية في قراءتها على أمل أن أشبع مع قراءتي عن تاريخ هذه البلاد وعن الطبيعة الساحرة بها، ولكنني قد أحتاج إلى كتب أخرى للقراءة عن هذا الجزء من العالم.
لغة الكاتب كانت أكثر من جميلة كما أن جمالياته في التعبير عن الحركة والألوان والعواطف (خاصة الحركة والألوان) كانت شديدة السحر والروعة.

إلا أن إقحامه للجانب الجنسي كان شديد السوء. على عكس رضوى عاشور التي تعطي للقارئ نبذة بدون أي كلمات أو وصف جسدي، يستمتع هذا الكاتب بإقحام البذاءة في الأحداث والتي لم أحس في أيٍ منها بأن وجودها كان ضروريًا للأحداث.

ورغم كل هذا إلا أنني استمتعت بقصصه عن البخاري والنقشبندي والجزء التاريخي للبلاد. مما بعث إليّ سحرها حتى تمنيت أن أزورها يومًا ما.

رواية، رغم اختلافي على الجزء الإباحي فيها والجزء المصري الممل، إلا أنها رائعة لغويًا وتاريخيًا.
]]> 1618 226 Mark Haddon 1400032717 Nema 4 I admire how they think in patterns, how they see the outside world, how they take things literally which is something we sometimes need in our life.
My favorite character, however, was Christopher's father; the love he gave for his kid was just so amazingly pure and unconditional.
Also, Christopher somehow reminded me of Holden in The Catcher in the Rye, with the difference being that Holden wasn't a mentally ill teenager.
I'm grateful there are writers like Haddon who can show their readers new things to learn.]]> 3.89 2003
author: Mark Haddon
name: Nema
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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This is not a novel that people would like because of descriptions or the writing style or the prose-like words. This is the kind of novel that has some kind of an educational purpose behind it. I admire how Haddon focused on giving the readers a bit of an idea of how autistic people think like, act like, or their points of weakness and their points of strength. Personally, I only dealt with one autistic kid in my life and I could only go on with him for like 5 minutes and then I didn't know what to do.
I admire how they think in patterns, how they see the outside world, how they take things literally which is something we sometimes need in our life.
My favorite character, however, was Christopher's father; the love he gave for his kid was just so amazingly pure and unconditional.
Also, Christopher somehow reminded me of Holden in The Catcher in the Rye, with the difference being that Holden wasn't a mentally ill teenager.
I'm grateful there are writers like Haddon who can show their readers new things to learn.
]]> 11904233 The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1.

The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of tiny stories.

To create The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, known within the hitRECord community as RegularJOE—directed thousands of collaborators to tell tiny stories through words and art. With the help of the entire creative collective, Gordon-Levitt culled, edited and curated over 8,500 contributions into this finely tuned collection of original art from 67 contributors. Reminiscent of the 6-Word Memoir series, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1 brings together art and voices from around the world to unite and tell stories that defy size.]]> 87 Joseph Gordon-Levitt 0062121669 Nema 3 4.09 2011
author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
name: Nema
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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The least I liked from all three volumes.
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متّ ولم نستمرّ يا غسان..]]> 4.02 1958
author: Ghassan Kanafani
name: Nema
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1958
rating: 4
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ليس المهم أن يموت أحدنا.. المهم أن تستمروا.

متّ ولم نستمرّ يا غسان..
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في نيويورك، تفرض نفسها كفنانة تشكيلية أميركية الطراز العالي. عندما يباغتها سرطان الرئة، تستيقظ فيها تربتها الأولى وأشباحها الخفية، فتتمنى أن تعود إلى القدس، لون طفولتها المسروقة، لتموت هناك. ولكن، هل يمكن أن نعود إلى الأرض نفسها بعد نصف قرن من الغياب؟ ماذا تعني العودة عندما يقضي الفلسطسني العمر كله في الدوران خارج نظام المجرات؟

"اليوم أشياء كثيرة تغيرت، الدنيا نفسها صارت شيئاً آخر، بعدما هدأت كل الآلام والتأمت بعض الجروح ونسيت صرخة بوسي المفزعة التي صاحبتني مدة طويلة في أحلامي وكوابيسي، وانتهيت في تدوين حدادي كما اشتهيت، أصبحت لا أرى شيئاً سواها في قمة تألقها كما في سنوات تفتحها الأولى. كلما أغمضت عيني المتعبتين من مشقة الموسيقى والعمل الدائم، رأيت مي تقوم من بفايا رمادها كطائر الفينيق، وتتحول إلى فراشات لا متناهية خطت على أجنحتها دوائر لا حصر لها وألوان بمذاق البرتقال واللوز. كلما نزل الليل، أضاءت مدينة الله اليتيمة، أورشليم المنكفئة على عزلتها وجبروت صمت موتها المتواتر
.]]> 565 واسيني الأعرج Nema 3
أحببت بشدة تركيز الأعرج على الألوان في الرواية وما لها من تأثير على الشخصية الرئيسية فيها. وأيضًا تأثير البيانو على الابن وموسيقاه من مختلف أنواع السوناتا؛ من سوناتا الغياب وسوناتا الأشباح.

قصة الرواية ليست جديدة. الفقد والقدس والصراع مع مرض فتّاك. المميز فيها فقط ذلك الصراع على البقاء على قيد الحياة بنفس الألوان والموسيقى في الأذن. التفكك بين وطن حُرِم منه أبناؤه (فلسطين) الذين لهم أصل أندلسي، فبات الصراع تارة في الأندلس وتارتين في القدس.

الراوي في القصيدة يتنوّع، فأول الصفحات كان الابن، ثم الأم،ثم راوٍ ثالث لا هو هذا ولا هذه. شيء بعث روحًا للرواية.

أما الأحداث فهي بين ماضٍ وحاضر ثم مستقبل ثم ماضيان على خطان متوازيان.. ذهابًا وإيابًا بين زمن إلى آخر.

النجمات الثلاثة لما ذكرته توًا.. أما النجمتان الناقصتان فهما لركاكة اللغة العربية في كثير من الكلمات وحتى الأخطاء الغريبة غير المقبولة في ترجمات محددة وواضحة أشد الوضوح في الرواية.
ما أعيبه أيضًا على الكاتب هو إحساس القارئ بشيءٍ من الإقحام في الأسلوب الجمالي. إذ أن المشكلة الأساسية كانت عدم انسيابية الكلمات والمعاني الجمالية التي كانت في كثير من الجمل شيئًا ثقيلًا وأحيانًا ليس له معنى.


بشكلٍ عام هذه رواية جميلة وممتعة لكل من لهم ذوق معين في الفنّ.
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author: واسيني الأعرج
name: Nema
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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لهذه الرواية أسلوب خاص لم أقرأ مثله في الروايات التي قرأتها من قبل. لها حسّ فني شديد العمق وموسيقى وألوان قد لا تراها في رواية أخرى.

أحببت بشدة تركيز الأعرج على الألوان في الرواية وما لها من تأثير على الشخصية الرئيسية فيها. وأيضًا تأثير البيانو على الابن وموسيقاه من مختلف أنواع السوناتا؛ من سوناتا الغياب وسوناتا الأشباح.

قصة الرواية ليست جديدة. الفقد والقدس والصراع مع مرض فتّاك. المميز فيها فقط ذلك الصراع على البقاء على قيد الحياة بنفس الألوان والموسيقى في الأذن. التفكك بين وطن حُرِم منه أبناؤه (فلسطين) الذين لهم أصل أندلسي، فبات الصراع تارة في الأندلس وتارتين في القدس.

الراوي في القصيدة يتنوّع، فأول الصفحات كان الابن، ثم الأم،ثم راوٍ ثالث لا هو هذا ولا هذه. شيء بعث روحًا للرواية.

أما الأحداث فهي بين ماضٍ وحاضر ثم مستقبل ثم ماضيان على خطان متوازيان.. ذهابًا وإيابًا بين زمن إلى آخر.

النجمات الثلاثة لما ذكرته توًا.. أما النجمتان الناقصتان فهما لركاكة اللغة العربية في كثير من الكلمات وحتى الأخطاء الغريبة غير المقبولة في ترجمات محددة وواضحة أشد الوضوح في الرواية.
ما أعيبه أيضًا على الكاتب هو إحساس القارئ بشيءٍ من الإقحام في الأسلوب الجمالي. إذ أن المشكلة الأساسية كانت عدم انسيابية الكلمات والمعاني الجمالية التي كانت في كثير من الجمل شيئًا ثقيلًا وأحيانًا ليس له معنى.


بشكلٍ عام هذه رواية جميلة وممتعة لكل من لهم ذوق معين في الفنّ.

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الفصل الأول : قيام الدولة العثمانية وفتوحاتها ويشتمل على ستة مباحث :
المبحث الأول : عثمان مؤسس الدولة العثمانية
المبحث الثاني : السلطان أورخان بن عثمان
المبحث الثالث: السلطان مراد
المبحث الرابع : السلطان بايزيد الأول
المبحث الخامس: السلطان محمد الأول
المبحث السادس : مراد الثاني
الفصل الثاني : محمد الفاتح وفتح القسطنطينية ويشتمل على سبعة مباحث :
المبحث الأول :السلطان محمد الفاتح
المبحث الثاني: الفاتح المعنوي للقسطنطينية الشيخ شمس الدين آق محمد بن حمزة
المبحث الثالث: أثر فتح القسطنطينية على العالم الأوربي والإسلامي .
المبحث الرابع : أسباب فتح القسطنطينية
المبحث الخامس : أهم صفات محمد الفاتح
المبحث السادس : بعض من أعماله الحضارية
المبحث السابع : وصية السلطان محمد الفاتح لأبنه ، ثم الخـلاصة .

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author: Ali Muhammad As-Sallabi
name: Nema
average rating: 4.11
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]]> 4096668 175 مصطفى صادق الرافعي 9953435901 Nema 3 ولكن الرافعي هو هو الرافعي بروعة تعبيراته وقوّتها وجمال ألفاظه واستعاراته المجنونة عن الحبيبة. ]]> 4.03 1924
author: مصطفى صادق الرافعي
name: Nema
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1924
rating: 3
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برغم جمال لغة الرافعي في هذا الكتاب مثلها مثل الكتب الأخرى وأجمل، إلا أن التكلف في بعض التشبيهات كان واضحًا وضوحًا لم أستطع تجاهله في هذا الكتاب بالذات.
ولكن الرافعي هو هو الرافعي بروعة تعبيراته وقوّتها وجمال ألفاظه واستعاراته المجنونة عن الحبيبة.
]]> 545425 بحث في السيرة النبوية.
تأليف: الشيخ صفي الرحمن المباركفوري.
قُدِّم في مسابقة رابطة العالم الإسلامي في السيرة النبوية الشريفة، وحاز البحث على المركز الأول.

"ومن منهجي في هذا الكتاب ـ عدا ما جاء في إعلان الرابطة ـ أني قررت سلوك سبيل الاعتدال، متجنبًا التطويل الممل والإيجاز المخل، وقد وجدت المصادر تختلف فيما بينها حول كثير مما يتعلق بالأحداث اختلافًا لا يحتمل الجمع والتوفيق، فاخترت سبيل الترجيح، وأثبت في الكتاب ما ترجح لدي بعد التدقيق في الدراسة والنقد، إلا أني طويت ذكر الدلائل والوجوه؛ لأن ذلك يفضي إلى طول غير مطلوب��.

أما بالنسبة لقبول الروايات وردها فقد استفدت في ذلك مما كتبه الأئمة المتقنون، واعتمدت عليهم فيما حكموا به من الصحة والحسن والضعف؛ إذ لم أجد وقتًا يكفي للخوض في هذا المجال��.��

وقد أشرت في بعض المواضع إلى بعض الدلائل ووجوه الترجيح، وذلك حينما خِفْتُ الاستغراب ممن يقرأ الكتاب، أو رأيت شبه الاتفاق فيما بين الأولين والآخرين على خلاف ما هو الصواب��.�� والله ولي التوفيق��.��"

الجمعة المباركة
24/7/1396����
23/7/1976م
صفي الرحمن المباركفوري
الجامعة السلفية
بنارس - الهند]]> 498 Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri 9953320993 Nema 5 أو بالتعبير الأدق، سيرة تعجز أمامها الكلمات..]]> 4.60 1976
author: Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri
name: Nema
average rating: 4.60
book published: 1976
rating: 5
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كتابٌ لا تصفه كلمات.
أو بالتعبير الأدق، سيرة تعجز أمامها الكلمات..
]]> 9703747 هذا الكتاب الذي نقدم له يتحدث عن معاناة هذا العشب الأندلسي المسلم "الموريسكيين" ابتداء من سقوط غرناطة عام 1492م، وحتى طرد بقايا هذا الشعب المنكوب من إسبانيا عام 1608م، ولعل أهم ميزات الكتاب أنه اعتمد الوثائق الإسبانية النصرانية وبعض الوثائق الإسلامية، وعرض بشيء من الموضوعية-من وجهة نظر وطنية- إنصاف أقلية إسبانية عانت بسبب دينها ما عانت ويبدو أن هذا العمل العلمي الموضوعي.. صورة من تأنيب الضمير الإنساني الذي حمله الإسبانيون عبر أجيال، حتى كتب فيه كثيرون من كتابهم وكانوا بين مؤيد للطرد متعصب، متأسف يحاول أن يلتمس الأعذار.. أو يدين الممارسات الظالمة أو يهون منها..

وقد وضع هذا الكتاب عالمان من كبار المتخصصين المعاصرين وهما الإسباني: دومينقير هورتز، والفرنسي: برنارد بنثنت، كتباه باللغة الإسبانية.

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author: Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
name: Nema
average rating: 3.48
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يقول تعالى: (بل نقذف بالحق على الباطل فيدمغه فإذا هو زاهق ولكم الويل مما تصفون). شبهات يرد عليها الشيخ محمد بمنطلق إسلامي وعقلاني.

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شرح الدكتور محمد الغزالي
من خمسين سنة، عندما عقلت ما يجرى حولى، أدركت أن نصف الإسلام ميت أو مجمد، وأن نصفه الآخر هو المأذون له بالحياة أو الحركة إلى حين !!
وأحسست أن هنالك صراعاً يدور فى الخفاء أحياناً، وعلانية حيناً بين فريقين من الناس:
ـ فريق يستبقى النصف الموجود من الإسلام، ويدفع عنه العوادى، ويحاول استرجاع النصف المفقود، ويلفت الأنظار إلى غيابه .
ـ وفريق يضاعف الحجب على النصف الغائب، ويريد ليقتله قتلاً، وهو فى الوقت نفسه يسعى لتمويت النصف الآخر وإخماد أنفاسه وإهالة التراب عليه .
.. وكلما طال بى العمر كنت ألحظ أن المعركة بين الفريقين تتسع دائرتها وتشترك فيها إذاعات وأقلام، وجماعات وحكومات، ومناقشات ومؤامرات ..
.. وكانت الحرب سجالاً، وربما فقد المؤمنون بعض ما لديهم، وربحوا بعض ما أحرزه خصومهم، وربما كان العكس، وفى كلتا الحالتين تنضم إلى معسكر الحق قوى جديدة وتنضم إلى معسكر الباطل قوى جديدة، ويزداد الصراع حدة وشدة كلما لاح أن الساعة الحاسمة تقترب ..
ونحن نصدر هذا الكتاب فى ظروف شديدة التعقيد:
أعداء الإسلام يريدون الانتهاء منه، ويريدون استغلال المصائب التى نزلت بأمته كى يبنوا أنفسهم على أنقاضها ..
يريدون بإيجاز القضاء على أمة ودين ..
وقد قررنا نحن أن نبقى، وأن تبقى معنا رسالتنا الخالدة، أو قررنا أن تبقى هذه الرسالة ولو اقتضى الأمر أن نذهب فى سبيلها لترثها الأجيال اللاحقة ..
من أجل ذلك نرفض أن نعيش وفق ما يريد غيرنا أو وفق ما تقترحه علينا عقائد ونظم دخيلة .]]> 304 محمد الغزالي Nema 0 to-read 4.21 1991
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لست أدري من كان يعبر الآخر: أنا أم الشارع في ليل هذه الجمعة الحزينة، الأصوات التي تملأ الذاكرة والقلب صارت لا تعد، ولم أعد أملك الطاقة لمعرفتها كل شيء اختلط مثل العجيبة.

يجب أن تعرفوا أني منهك ومنتهك وحزين ومتوحد مثل الكآبة".]]> 240 واسيني الأعرج Nema 0 to-read 3.67 2006
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]]> 169338
In the Footsteps of the Prophet is a fresh and perceptive look at Muhammad, capturing a life that was often eventful, gripping, and highly charged. Ramadan provides both an intimate portrait of a man who was shy, kind, but determined, as well as a dramatic chronicle of a leader who launched a great religion and inspired a vast empire. More important, Ramadan presents the main events of the Prophet's life in a way that highlights his spiritual and ethical teachings. The book underscores the significance of the Prophet's example for some of today's most controversial issues, such as the treatment of the poor, the role of women, Islamic criminal punishments, war, racism, and relations with other religions. Selecting those facts and stories from which we can draw a profound and vivid spiritual picture, the author asks how can the Prophet's life remain -- or become again -- an example, a model, and an inspiration? And how can Muslims move from formalism -- a fixation on ritual -- toward a
committed spiritual and social presence?

In this thoughtful and engaging biography, Ramadan offers Muslims a new understanding of Muhammad's life and he introduces non-Muslims not just to the story of the Prophet, but to the spiritual and ethical riches of Islam.]]> 242 Tariq Ramadan 0195308808 Nema 0 to-read 4.46 2007
author: Tariq Ramadan
name: Nema
average rating: 4.46
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]]> 679675 272 Maurice Bucaille 187940298X Nema 0 to-read 4.13 1976
author: Maurice Bucaille
name: Nema
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]]> 13623923 The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Looper, 500 Days of Summer) made a big splash with The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories—so now he's back with volume 2! One of the most ingenious and successful projects to come out of Gordon-Levitt's online creative coalition hitRECord—an international collaboration of artists and writers��The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 2 offers more quirky, delightfully small, ingeniously illustrated haiku-like tales, proving once more that the universe isn't made of atoms; it's made of tiny stories. The best things do come in small packages.]]> 127 Joseph Gordon-Levitt 0062121634 Nema 5 4.18 2012
author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
name: Nema
average rating: 4.18
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rating: 5
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Perfect! Every little detail about these volumes is amazing. It's beautiful how much one can relate to so many stories that are drawn and told in these books. I loved this one even more than the first volume I read (the third volume).
]]> 7719571 68 Sayyid Qutb Nema 4 3.66 1995
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name: Nema
average rating: 3.66
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rating: 4
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نحن في أمسّ الحاجة لأمثالك في هذا الزمان ..
]]> 7268003 80 Ghassan Kanafani Nema 4 3.59 1966
author: Ghassan Kanafani
name: Nema
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1966
rating: 4
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لا شيء يوصفك يا غسان .. فكل ما تبقى لي هو عجزٌ عن الكتابة.
]]> 20958635 صلاة التائهين فكرة؛ بل أفكار تتداعى، يقودها إيقاعٌ فريدٌ ومختلف. تائهو «أحمد فتح الباب» موزَّعون بين «صحوٍ» و«غفوٍ» و«بين بين». ذاتٌ واحدةٌ، ودرجات وعيٍ متراكبة. بين الطبقة والأخرى دروبٌ من خيال، قطعُ موسيقى، تصاويرُ، تنانيرُ تدورُ وتدور، تصل أدنى الشعورِ بمنتهاه، قلبَ الطفلِ بالحُلمِ بالدرويش.]]> 100 أحمد فتح الباب Nema 0 to-read 3.56 2014
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]]> 17349137
To create The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, known within the hitRECord.org community as RegularJOE, directs thousands of collaborators to tell tiny stories through words and art. With the help of the entire creative collective, he culls, edits, and curates the massive numbers of contributions into a finely tuned collection.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Volume 3 once again brings together art and voices from around the world to unite and tell stories that defy size.]]> 128 Joseph Gordon-Levitt 0062121650 Nema 4 4.37 2013
author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
name: Nema
average rating: 4.37
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rating: 4
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This is such an outstandingly cute book :)
]]> 5985373 82 Omar Khayyám Nema 2 لم أتخيل أن يكون الخيام من عاشقي الخمر لحدّ أنه كان يسكر بها ثم يتعبّد لله بعد الإفاقة ..

بالإضافة إلى أن كمية التخريف في القدر ليست بهيّنة ..]]> 3.78 1120
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name: Nema
average rating: 3.78
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عادي :(
لم أتخيل أن يكون الخيام من عاشقي الخمر لحدّ أنه كان يسكر بها ثم يتعبّد لله بعد الإفاقة ..

بالإضافة إلى أن كمية التخريف في القدر ليست بهيّنة ..
]]> 23885 170 Gabriel García Márquez 0060751576 Nema 2 3.88 1961
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Nema
average rating: 3.88
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rating: 2
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The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath.

Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.]]> 288 Jon Ronson 1594488010 Nema 0 to-read 3.87 2011
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