Hashim Yeop Sani Library

Hashim Yeop Sani Library Hashim Yeop Sani Library (HYSL) of CPDS was founded in 2012 with generous denation by the children of Hashim Sani from Malaysia.

They initiated the library as a memory of their late father who was the Chief Justice of Malaysia. HYSL aims to raise awareness of the important issues around the world, with a special focus on the Palestinian cause. The Library implements monthly activities such as book discussions and meetings. HYSL is characterized by
• it contains more than 2000 English & Arabic books that cannot be found e

lsewhere in Gaza.
• Most of the English books are new and related to the Palestinian cause
• HYSL varies to include books in different fields, including Politics, Media, Literature, Reports, Periodicals, Language, and Religion.

21/08/2022

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Granada by Radwa Ashour 👇Radwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granadan rule and an Arabic world into a novel that...
10/08/2022

Granada by Radwa Ashour 👇

Radwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granadan rule and an Arabic world into a novel that evokes cultural loss and the disappearance of a vanquished population. The novel follows the family of Abu Jaafar, the bookbinder, his wife, widowed daughter-in-law, her two children, and his two apprentices as they witness Christopher Columbus and his entourage in a triumphant parade featuring exotic plants and animals and human captives from the New World. Embedded in the narrative is the preparation for the marriage of Saad, one of the apprentices, and Saleema, Abu Jaafar's granddaughter -- a scenario that is elegantly revealed in a number of parallel scenes.

As the new rulers of Granada confiscate books and officials burn the collected volumes, Abu Jaafur quietly moves his rich library out of town. Persecuted Muslims fight to form an independent government, but increasing economic and cultural pressures on the Arabs of Spain and Christian rulers culminate in Christian conversions and Muslim uprisings.

A tale that is both vigorous and heartbreaking, this novel will appeal to general readers of Spanish and Arabic literature as well as anyone interested in Christian-Muslim relations.

👉 Available now at the HYSL




A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif 👇Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly com...
04/08/2022

A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif 👇

Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.

Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father's suspicious death, which the government calls a su***de. Ali's target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistan. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-smoking American lieutenant, and a mango-besotted crow, Ali sets his elaborate plan in motion. There's only one problem: the line of would-be Zia assassins is longer than he could have possibly known.

👉 Available now at the HYSL




Circle of Stones by Catherine Fisher 👇Suspense, mysticism, and history encircle three separate but related narratives in...
03/08/2022

Circle of Stones by Catherine Fisher 👇

Suspense, mysticism, and history encircle three separate but related narratives in this fantasy novel. Today, Sulis, a teenage girl with a mysterious past, arrives in Bath with a new identity, trailed by the person she's trying to outrun. In 1740, Zac is apprenticed to an architect obsessed with Druidic mysteries, but has his own secret—and destructive—agenda. In ancient England, a druid king discovers the healing waters of a magical spring, where he founds a great city, and the heart of Fisher’s story. Through each voice, the mysteries are revealed, linking Sulis, Zac, and the king through the circles of time.

👉 Available now at the HYSL




Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez 👇A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place tw...
02/08/2022

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez 👇

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.

Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to try and stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.

👉 Available now at the HYSL




Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie 👇How do we find our way in the world? How do our acti...
01/08/2022

Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie 👇

How do we find our way in the world? How do our actions affect others? What do we owe the rest of humanity? These are the timeless questions so eloquently posed by Rachel Corrie, a young American activist killed on March 16, 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in the Gaza Strip. She was twenty-three years old. Let Me Stand Alone reveals Corrie’s striking gifts as a poet and writer while telling her story in her own words, from her earliest reflections to her final e-mails. Her writing brings to life all that it means to come of age—a dawning sense of self, a thirst for one’s own ideals, and an evolving connection to others, near and far. Corrie writes about the looming issues of her time as well as the ordinary angst of an American teen, all with breathtaking passion, compassion, insight, and humor. Her writing reverberates with conviction and echoes her long-held belief in the oneness of humanity: “We have got to understand that they dream our dreams, and we dream theirs.”

👉 Available now at the HYSL




The Woman from Tantoura: A Novel of Palestine by Radwa Ashour, Kay Heikkinen (Translator) 👇Palestine. For most of us, th...
31/07/2022

The Woman from Tantoura: A Novel of Palestine by Radwa Ashour, Kay Heikkinen (Translator) 👇

Palestine. For most of us, the word brings to mind a series of confused images and disjointed associations—massacres, refugee camps, UN resolutions, settlements, terrorist attacks, war, occupation, checkered kuffiyehs and su***de bombers, a seemingly endless cycle of death and destruction. This novel does not shy away from such painful images, but it is first and foremost a powerful human story, following the life of a young girl from her days in the village of al-Tantoura in Palestine up to the dawn of the new century. We participate in events as they unfold, seeing them through the uneducated but sharply intelligent mind of Ruqayya, as she tries to make sense of all that has happened to her and her family. With her, we live her love of her land and of her people; we feel the repeated pain of loss, of diaspora, and of cross-generational misunderstanding; and above all, we come to know her indomitable human spirit. As we read we discover that we have become part of Ruqayya’s family, and her voice will remain with us long after we have closed the book.

👉 Available now at the HYSL




The Gift by Hafez 👇More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions o...
29/07/2022

The Gift by Hafez 👇

More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Tongue of the Invisible."

With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Daniel Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices. Each line of THE GIFT imparts the wonderful qualities of the spiritual teacher: an audacious love that empowers lives, profound knowledge, wild generosity, and a sweet, playful genius unparalleled in world literature.

👉 Available now at the HYSL




Explorers: Journeys to the Ends of the Earth by Jon Balchin 👇This book is a history of exploration—from the first voyage...
28/07/2022

Explorers: Journeys to the Ends of the Earth by Jon Balchin 👇

This book is a history of exploration—from the first voyages of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Phoenicians, to humanity’s first ventures beyond the confines of our own planet. Each chapter covers a particular continent, presents the biographies of the explorers closely identified with each region, and relates the significance of their most important discoveries to the wider world.

👉 Available now at the HYSL




Ghost by Alan Lightman 👇Alan Lightman's first novel, Einstein's Dreams, became an international best seller and was hail...
27/07/2022

Ghost by Alan Lightman 👇

Alan Lightman's first novel, Einstein's Dreams, became an international best seller and was hailed by Salman Rushdie as "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." His novel The Diagnosis, called "highly original and imaginative" by The New York Times, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Now comes a stunning and disturbing new novel about a man's encounter with the unfathomable.

David is a person of modest ambitions who works in a bank, lives in a rooming house, enjoys books and quiet walks by the lake. Three months after unexpectedly being fired from his job, he takes a temporary position at a mortuary. And there, sitting alone in the "slumber room" one afternoon at dusk, he sees something that he cannot comprehend, something that will force him to question everything he believes in, including himself. After his metaphysical experience, all his relationships change—with his estranged wife, his girlfriend, his mother—and he grudgingly finds himself at the center of a bitter public controversy over the existence of the supernatural. As David struggles to understand what has happened to him, we embark on a provocative exploration of the delicate divide between the physical world and the spiritual world, between skepticism and faith, between the natural and the supernatural, and between science and religion.

Combining a dramatic story with compelling characters and provocative ideas, Ghost investigates timeless questions that continue to challenge contemporary society.

👉 Available now at the HYSL




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Shifa Street/Al-Ajrami Building/2nd Floor
Gaza

Opening Hours

Monday 08:00 - 14:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 14:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 14:00
Thursday 08:00 - 14:00
Saturday 08:00 - 14:00
Sunday 08:00 - 14:00

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