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29 April

Kalima unveils their latest release “The Arabic translation for: Dreams of My Father

As the British Best Biography prize goes to Barak Obama for his book: "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance", Kalima has revealed their latest release; The Arabic translation for Barak's own biography. The 44th President of the United States of America takes us back to the roots of his story, when his father arrived to the States at 1959 to enroll at the University of Hawaii to be the first African student at that university. That is where he met a shy white American girl who hadn't turned eighteen then, and with whom he had a romance that ended with them getting married and giving birth to the author of this book.

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11 Oct

Herta Muller takes Nobel prize for Literature 2009
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Welcome to kalima, a major new translation initiative by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage, which funds the translation, publication and distribution of high quality foreign writing into Arabic.

Every year Kalima will select 100 candidate titles of classic, contemporary and modern writing from around the world to be translated into Arabic.

Click here to see the full list of 100 candidate titles announced on 21st November.

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Below are the titles completed already, with more from the list to follow shortly.

Titles Coming Soon
Climate Confusion
L\\\\\\\'avenir de l\\\\\\\'eau
La peur des barbares
From the Mixed Files of Mrs.Bassil
Skeleton
Soufisme
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