Kalemat Arabia

Kalemat Arabia (Arabic: كلمات عربية‎) is a publishing company that was founded in 2007 in Cairo, Egypt, as an initiative to bridge the gap between the Arab and the western culture, by means of facilitating access to western knowledge for the Arab reader by providing translations of the Western cultural and intellectual best books into Arabic.

List of publications

The following is a list of currently published titles:

Economics

• Naked Economics الاقتصاد عاريا
• Fair Play اللعب النظيف
• Free Lunch دعوة غداء
• Armchair Economist فيلسوف الاقتصاد
• More Sex is Safer Sex تحدي البديهة
• The Undercover Economist المخبر الاقتصادي
• Complete Idiot’s Guide to Economics
• Barbarians inside the gates
• Capitalism and Freedom
• Applied Economics

Biographies

• Adam Smith آدم سميث
• Thomas Jefferson توماس جيفرسون
• Gandhi غاندي: رحلة البحث عن الحقيقة
• Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power ماكيافللي: فيلسوف القوة .
• Dreams from my father

Business

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni العوامل الخمسة لخلل العمل الجماعي
• Silos, Politics and Turf Wars Patrick Lencioni حرب العصابات في عالم المؤسسات
• The Five Temptations of a CEO Patrick Lencioni الأخطاء الخمسة للرئيس التنفيذي
• Death by Meeting Patrick Lencioni الاجتماعات القاتلة
• Three signs of a miserable job Patrick Lencioni

Popular science

• Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction الرياضيات: مقدمة قصيرة جدا
• The Five Biggest Ideas in Science أكبر خمس أفكار في العلوم
• The Canon المبادئ
• Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think ريتشارد دوكينز:عالم غير أفكارنا
• In search of Schroedinger's cat
• Atomic theory
• The physical principles of the quantum theory
• Mathematics for the curious
• The large the small and the human mind

History

• Power, Faith and Fantasy القوة والايمان والخيال

Science fiction

• Flatland الأرض المسطحة

Partner projects

Kalemat Arabia is one of the partner publishers of projects that are interested in the reviving of translation in the Arab world:

• 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.
• MBR Foundation - Tarjem Project. Tarjem is the Arabic word for translate. The Tarjem programme seeks to develop the translation process in the Arab World by translating foreign works into Arabic and vice versa. This program is funded by Mohamed Bin Rashed Al Maktoum Foundation.

External links

• Kalemat Arabia
• * Weghat Nazar Article about More Sex is Safer Sex تحدي البديهة
• * Weghat Nazar Article about Thomas Jefferson توماس جيفرسون
• * Weghat Nazar Article about Armchair Economist فيلسوف الاقتصاد
• * Weghat Nazar Article about Naked Economics الاقتصاد عاريا