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Palestinian comedy covering 250 years of modern
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Complete Poetry Collection of The Palestinian Poet Ahmad Hilmi Abdul-Baqui
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The Book of Writing: That is Life…That is Color (Testimonies about Writing),
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The Defeat of the Victors: The Cinema between Creativity and Market Demand
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The Arar literary Award, for Jordanian and Arab poets, Jordan, 1991.
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The Last Dialogue a Few Minutes Before the Killing of the Sparrow
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The Flying Autobiography; Less than an Enemy. More than a Friend
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