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From parking our car illegally to save time, to gambling on the stock market to make a quick buck, human nature always follows the path of least resistance. The Final Illusion of Achievement explores human behaviour and asks such probing questions as to 'Why are we addicted to filming ourselves on social media?'; 'Why do we care so much about what other people think of us?'; 'What is the difference between real work and what we think is real work?' And finally, 'What does it mean to leave a mark?' and 'Should we even care?' Thought provoking and inspirational, this book is an essential companion for readers looking to better understand the social world of today.

Half of Me is Ashes> Dance of the light, so professional and clear The skies, a bride in gowns of blue and red Her gift, the stars like bracelets, shining bright and spread And I, a stranger nebula in this universe I fragmented, denied orbit and cast in curse Half of me turned to ashes, soaring high and far The other half, an explosion, a glowing star A good trait in my skin, the curiosity of mankind A borrowed attitude, or just my kind? That's how we are, we entrain To the endings, death's refrain An abbreviation for life, we know A border from consciousness, it shows. Disclosing the hidden, death does bring And life is the curtain, a temporary thing For every search of souls, an emancipation Perfection, full of dazzle and sensation Every search is a discovery of beauty within A test of our faith, and a search for Him.

Balancing parody with poignancy, these prose poems throw a light on the tragedies, large and small, of the human condition. The poet mines the history of Arabic culture and views it through a contemporary lens with often absurd and comic intent. Her aim is to throw a light on the delusions we live by and the contradictions we inhabit.

Shtiwi Al Githi is a wonderfully learned poet steeped in love for his native Saudi Arabia. He writes poems that stretch across the ages of his country's history, faith and literary culture. He identifies with the vastness of the desert and the desert sky to draw connections that span the ages and that capture a longing and desire for his homeland and a deep love of his poetic heritage and Islamic culture. His themes also touch on the frustrations of romantic love and the recent isolation inflicted by Covid. This poetry collection offers a fascinating glimpse of the subtlety and depth of a nomadic imagination forged in deep experience of the geography and philosophy and in knowledge of the Quran and of the ancient traditions of Arabic poetry.

In his spiritual poetry in the tradition of the mystic, of Sufism, Mohammed Ibrahim Yaghob writes of his yearning for the sublime in both divine and human love. Suffering from a sense of preternatural exile, the poet contemplates the mystery of love, convinced that it is the pursuit of communion, confluence with love or sense of total presence, that gives life meaning and not the mere fact of love's loss or his exilic residence on Earth.

No one knows what the mystery man looks like. In this futuristic society, all are hooked on watching the deadly games on giant screens against the backdrop of city skyscrapers. Passers-by freeze as they watch players - one after the other - parachute into the Arena only to be killed within seconds, their grizzly deaths broadcast in vivid detail second by second. Are the players there by their consent? Or have they forced to take part in this vicious battle against evil for the audience's entertainment, part of some mad scientist's bold experiment?

Yasser and Amal move into a new home in Riyadh and prepare to welcome their first child, but soon their happy life together is marred by a series of inexplicable events. Although painful personal experience makes Yasser suspect that dark forces may be at work, he also worries that he may be suffering from mental illness and tries to shield his wife from both possibilities. Tossed about by increasingly troubling signs, they alternate between denial and despair. Are they the target of paranormal beings or just being paranoid? And will someone literally be dying to find out?

A brutal tale of revenge, insanity and depravity by the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize 2010. In a bitter culture clash underpinned by racial and class tension, both perpetrator and victim lose out. This no-holds-barred account tells how a man loses a leg and his sanity in his obsession to gain revenge. Madness derived from obsessive behavior sees another of the players plunge to the depths of depravity in a bid to appease evil spirits. This is prize-winning author Abdo Khal at his best, confident and shocking in his confrontation of entrenched shibboleth. Powerful and controversial writing by an author who is known for the unblinking acuity he brings to his metaphorical presentation of life's angsts. Part of Nomad Publishing's range of authors in translation, painting a vivid picture of Arabia at a time of astonishingly rapid change.

Set against the backdrop of modern Saudi Arabia, Deception by Abeer Al Ali, tells the story of Salem, a young Bedouin boy coming of age and struggling with the constraints of tradition in a rapidly changing world, growing up as camels make way for tractors and trucks, and the digital world comes to the fore. Travelling back and forth in time, the narrative is knitted around Salem's forbidden love for Khuloud, unhappily married to an older man from whom she wants a divorce. Or so it seems ...

A young man's quest to find a bride is a difficult journey at the best of times. Even a well-educated doctor in a secure, respectable job faces opposition as high as the mountains in which he is searching. The temptation of an easy union doesn't pass the test of close examination and the mother of the ideal bride proves to be an even bigger obstacle to the proposed match than the father.

Two childhood friends, Jalal and Ghassan, bump into one another in a busy market, more than thirty years since they last met. Jalal invites his old friend to join his wedding anniversary party at his house that evening. But the reunion is not a happy one. Ghassan was once engaged to the woman who became Jalal's wife, and Jalal's family is not as happy as it seems. Over the next few hours a tense and dramatic tragedy unfolds that threatens to destroy them all as old wounds are reopened.