Arikaz

Chaker Khazaal

It is the late 2040s in a world transformed by the «Reset», a devastating cyber pandemic, Sherif, a modest Lebanese man, is unwittingly drawn into a revolutionary memory experiment at Arikaz, a pioneering tech firm in futuristic Neom, Saudi Arabia. Under the guidance of Dr. Jenny Atkinson, a brilliant neuroscientist with her own complicated past, Sherif’s dive into his memories brings a love story to light—that of his parents, Nour and Nadav, set against the Middle East’s turbulent socio-political backdrop. «ARIKAZ» is more than just Sherif’s story. It underscores the troubling prospect of memory manipulation and challenges our perceptions of truth in our digital world. It emphasizes the critical importance of data accuracy when a single discrepancy can drastically shift individual destinies and societal trajectories. Chaker Khazaal, born a refugee in Lebanon in 1987, is a Palestinian-Canadian reporter, speaker, and the award-winning author behind the Confessions of a War Child trilogy (2013-2015), Tale of Tala (2017), and Ouch (2020). He also serves as the Executive Chairman of OBCIDO Inc. Learn more >‎

إسماعيل باشا

خديويّ مصر

روبير سوليه

إسماعيل باشا – اعتبره البعض كارثة حلّت على مصر بينما اعتبره آخرون مُصلِحًا كبيرًا، لكنّه في النهاية كان الوحيد الذي لُقِّب بـ«العظيم». هذا كتاب عن سيرة إسماعيل باشا، الخديويّ الأوّل، حفيد محمّد علي، الذي عُرف بولعه بالبذخ، ولكن أيضًا بإنجازاته الكثيرة، وبالتحديث الذي شغله طوال فترة حكمه. وُلِد إسماعيل باشا عام 1830، وحكم مصر منذ 1863 حتى 1879. وعلى عكس جدّه صاحب الأصول التركيّة-المقدونيّة، الذي استحوذ على السلطة بقوّة السلاح، قُدِّمت لإسماعيل مصر مزدهرة ذات موقع استراتيجي على طريق الهند. معه، بدأت رحلة التحديث في بلادٍ راحت تتشبّه بالقوى الأوروبّية الكبرى: قناة السويس. مناهج مُستعارة من الغرب لتحديث قطاع التعليم. إصلاح النظام القضائي. تطوير في البنى التحتيّة وطرق المواصلات. كلّ ذلك، يضاف إليه أيضًا أموال طائلة صرفها إسماعيل باشا في سبيل الحصول على لقب «الخديويّ» من الباب العالي. في النهاية، وبعد تنازله مرغمًا عن العرش عام 1879، توارث ولاة مصر إنجازاته ولقبه، ولكن أيضًا بلادًا على حافّة الهاوية. «تتغذّى أدواره الثلاثة، كصحفي وكاتب مقالات وروائي، من بعضها البعض، وتمنح نصوصه متعةً إضافيّة للقرّاء.» — Les Cahiers de l’Orient روبير سوليه – وُلِد روبير سوليه في القاهرة، وعمل صحفيًّا في جريدة Le Monde مدّة طويلة، وكاتبًا في صحيفة Le 1 الأسبوعيّة، فسخّر العديد من مقالاته لمصر، بلده الأصلي. وقد ألّف كتبًا عديدة، نقلت منها نوفل إلى العربية: «السادات» (2015)، «وجوه مصر الحديثة» (2020)، ورواية «فندق مهرجان» (2017). المزيد >

Si j'avais un cèdre

Caroline Torbey

« Si j'avais un Cèdre » est une utopie bilingue (FR/AR) illustrée. C'est un livre tout public sur le Liban et son emblème : le Cèdre. Avec ses messages à portée universelle, tous inspirés de la jeunesse, il a pour but de renforcer le patriotisme, le sentiment d'appartenance et la fierté d'être libanais spécialement au vu de la situation critique actuelle. Il met en relief la beauté mais surtout, les valeurs, la chaleur et la richesse du Liban à travers un dialogue en prose. L'originalité de l'ouvrage réside dans la forme de son écriture et dans le choix de son personnage principal-androgyne, qui entretient une relation particulière avec un Cèdre. «لو كان عندي أرزَة» كتاب مصوَّرٌ باللّغتين العربيّة والفرنسيّة، قصّة خياليّة قصيرة لكافَّة الأعمار، محورها لبنان ورمزه: الأرزة. النصّ غنيّ برسائل مستوحاة من أفكار الشّباب وتساؤلاتهم، وهدفه في الجوهر تعزيز حسّ المواطنة والانتماء والافتخار بالهويّة اللّبنانيّة، رغم الأوضاع الحاليّة الصعبة. عبر حوار يجريه Çلبنانيّ صغيرÈ مع أرزته، تسلّط الكاتبة الضّوء على جمال لبنان، مركّزةً على قيمه، ودفئه، وغناه. يتميّز هذا العمل بأسلوب كتابته، وبشخصيّته الرّئيسة الّتي تُحاكي جميع القُرّاء وترتبط بالأرزة بعلاقةٍ فريدة. Caroline Torbey - De mère française et de père libanais, Caroline Torbey est une auteure francophone résidant à Beyrouth. Elle est lauréate du « Trophée des Français de l'Etranger » en 2018 pour sa trilogie intitulée « Dessine-moi un proverbe » et remporte le « Concours de la Nouvelle George Sand » en 2020 grâce à sa nouvelle « Refuge ». Elle publie « Eclat d'une vie » en 2021, un témoignage de vie romancé sur l'explosion du port de Beyrouth dont elle est victime. Elle a co-écrit plusieurs ouvrages et publie régulièrement dans la presse francophone de son pays. « Si j'avais un Cèdre » est son tout dernier ouvrage. Learn more >‎

Spidey and his amazing friends Meet the Spidey Team

The Sweeties Collection

Marvel

Join forces with your favorite web-slinging heroes—Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, and Miles Morales—to keep their neighborhood safe. Learn more >‎

From Village to Presidential Suite

My Life’s Journey

Dr. Joseph Jabbra

“How does one know one has lived a full life? This is a question that preoccupies all of us at one time or another, but at a simple level we can say, “through the evidence of our actions and our relationships with others.” The pages of this memoir bear witness to Dr. Jabbra’s achievements, from his successful terms as Provost at St. Mary’s and Loyola Marymount, to his crowning moment as President of LAU. But much of the magic of this book lies in its descriptions of his friendships and interactions throughout his life, from the early days in his family village of al-Firzul to his school experiences at Harissa and St. Joseph, and the eventual passage to the United States, armed with Arabic, French, Latin and Greek, but no English. Then on to his life in America and Canada, and the rich relationships he formed with so many in that extraordinary phenomenon that is the Lebanese diaspora. After seeing an early draft of this memoir, I urged Dr. Jabbra to relate the day-to-day experiences he had in running LAU in the semichaotic atmosphere that prevails even in the best of times in Lebanon. I knew how vivid some of these moments were, having shared many with him, and he has captured that time beautifully, although I wish he had included a particularly hairy moment he and I once had, from which we were fortunate to emerge unscathed.” Philip Stoltzfus, Chairman, LAU Board of Trustees September 2021 My tamed ego was my friend and not my enemy, my wise advisor but not my dictator. Forgiveness, instead of retaliation, was my motto. Integrity and the highest ethical standards defeated, hands down, my detractors at the governing boards of any institution I served. My leveling with people, working together with them, and my honesty were invincible weapons and very difficult to resist or defeat. The realization on the part of the three university families I served, in Canada, the United States, and Lebanon, that I had a unique combination of genuine caring for people and a will of steel to defend the institution I was working for against any abuse, won me the people’s respect, not their fear, their genuine affection and trust. And this is something that I will cherish for the rest of my life. My transformative tenures at SMU, LMU, and LAU were strengthened by their remarkable families. They believed in the mission of their respective universities, they pulled ranks together, and together they transformed them from ordinary colleges to major forces in higher education, and they did it with indomitable drive, exemplary grace, unique pride, and contagious passion.” Dr Joseph Jabbra, From Village to Presidential Suite: My Life’s Journey, 2022, pg 687, In Conclusions and Lessons learned, Beirut, Hachette Antoine. Learn more >‎

Histoire Illustrée du Liban

Nayla de Freige et Maria Saad

Tout au long des siècles, une bande de terre donnant sur la Méditerranée orientale, avec ses montagnes et ses plaines attire les Empires et abrite les minorités. Dans sa première version, publiée en 1987, Histoire illustrée du Liban décrivait la période allant de l’âge de pierre au début de la guerre civile en 1975. Cette nouvelle édition poursuit le récit jusqu’en 2008. Elle s’articule autour d’une trame chronologique qui replace les événements-repères et les dates-clés, illustrés avec détails, couleurs et humour. Learn more >‎

Maximum Max

Prince of Peaks

Inspired by the adventures of Maxime Chaya

“And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin the climb.” Gibran Khalil Gibran No one knows better than Max this land which has been lent to us for a lifetime. He who has explored its every nook and cranny: from the North Pole to the South Pole, from Earth’s highest summit (Mount Everest at 8,850 m) to its vastest expanses of water (rowing across the Indian Ocean, in 57 days) and harshest deserts (cycling across the Empty Quarter without assistance, in 21 days). This second volume of the adventures of Maximum Max tells how this extreme sportsman, just back from Kilimanjaro, next attempts three more peaks of the Seven Summits challenge: Russia’s Mount Elbrus, the tallest in Europe; Argentina’s Aconcagua, the highest in South America; and, finally, Alaska’s Denali, the loftiest mountain of North America. Determined to always move onwards and upwards, our hero will encounter hardships that compel him to draw on all his physical and mental resources to surpass himself. Learn more >‎

Maximum Max

Le pérégrin du zénith

Inspiré des aventures de Maxime Chaya

« Et lorsque vous aurez atteint le sommet de la montagne, alors vous commencerez à monter. » Gibran Khalil Gibran Nul mieux que Max ne connaît cette terre qui nous est prêtée le temps d’une vie, lui qui en a exploré les moindres recoins, du pôle Nord au pôle Sud, de son sommet le plus élevé (le mont Éverest, 8 850 m) à l’immensité de ses océans (l’océan Indien à la rame, en 57 jours), et jusqu’à l’ardeur impitoyable de ses déserts (le Rub’ al-Khali à vélo sans assistance, en 21 jours). Ce deuxième album des aventures de Maximum Max raconte comment ce sportif de l’extrême, à peine redescendu du mont Kilimandjaro, se lance dans l’ascension de trois autres cimes figurant dans le Challenge des Sept Sommets : l’Elbrouz, plus haut double sommet de l’Europe et de la Russie ; l’Aconcagua, plus haute montagne de l’Amérique du Sud, et enfin, le Denali en Alaska, plus haute montagne de l’Amérique du Nord. Déterminé à aller de l’avant, et toujours plus haut, notre héros subira des épreuves qui le pousseront à puiser tout au fond de sa volonté les ressources pour se dépasser. Learn more >‎

Sarah and Her Sisters

American Missionary Pioneers in Arab Female Education, 1834-1937

Robert D. Stoddard, Jr

“Extracted from letters, memoirs and school records, Sarah and Her Sisters is the extraordinary history of how Sarah Smith and successive missionary “sisters” passed the torch of Arab female education forward from her Beirut Female School in 1834 to what became the co-ed Lebanese American University in 1994. It is hard to grasp the courage of these women, some married, some not, who bade farewell to their homes and families not knowing if they would ever return.” John Waterbury, President Emeritus, the American University of Beirut Learn more >‎