Copyright (C) Sameer Ayyoub

Email: sam2006@wp.pl

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Sameer Ayyoub, Ph.D. M.Sc. Eng.

- Intellectualist, journalist & publisher

- Academic & Specialist of Industrial Engineering & Management Science.

- Eastern & Central Europe - Regional Director
of Saudi Business Focus Magazine and other magazines.

- Head of Arab Countries Section at World Polonia Business Club,

- Special Writer for Polish Investor Magazine,

- Co-founder of Al-Jeel Al-Arabi, Publishers & Distributors, Amman - Jordan.

- Awards, Honours & Listings:
 2007: Who is Who in the Arab World 2007/2008,
 2007: Who is Who in Poland.
 2007: Nomination to the Honorary Title of Ambassador of Polish Culture, from World Polonia Business Club and Polonia Foundation].
 2006: Who is Who in Business & Management in Poland.
 2003: Distinction Diploma from GFPS – Scientific and Cultural Society of Middle & Eastern Europe.
 1976-1981: "Grand Prix in Contests of Prime Readers & General Knowledge among Jordanian and Palestinian schools by UNRWA & Jordanian Ministry of Education.

- Membership of Scientific, Cultural & Business Societies:
• Polish-Czech Scientific Society, Wrocław, since 2007.
• Lower Silesian Business Club, Wroclaw branch, since 2005.
• Head of Arab Countries Section in World Polonia Business Club, Polonia Foundation, since 2005.
• Polish Society of Culture & Tourism of Arab Countries - SKiTKA, Wroclaw branch, since 2003.
• GFPS – Scientific and Cultural Society of Middle & Eastern Europe, Poland - branch, since 2003.
• International Society For Philosophers (ISFP), a sister organization of the Philosophical Society of England, since 2002.
• International Forum of Educational Technology & Society "IFETS" (A subgroup of IEEE Learning Technology Task Force) IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, since 2002.
• Polish Ergonomics Association, Wroclaw branch, since 2000.
• Polish Society of Mechanical Engineers and Technicians, SIMP, Wrocław branch, since 1997.
• TNOiK, Scientific Society for Organization and Management, Wrocław branch, Poland, since 1994.
• PAT (Polish Arab Society for Promotion of Cultural & Economic Initiatives), Lublin branch, since 1993.
•Chairman of Cultural Committee at House of Arab Culture, in Wrocław, Poland (1986-1991).
• Vice-Chairman of Cultural & Scientific Committee at Al-Faluja Charitable Society, Amman - Jordan, since 1981.
• Head of Cultural & Scientific Committee at Salah Eddin Secondary School (1979-1982), Amman, Jordan.

- Organization and/or Participation in International Scientific, Cultural & Business in 2006/2007:
 The Middle East Travel & Tourism Summit 2006, Jordan, 26-27 February 2006.
 1st Euro-Arab Dialogue Forum, EADF in Paris- France, 26 - 28 April, 2006.
 The Polish Arab Business Meeting, Kraków - Poland, May 31- June 2, 2006.
 The Arab Gulf Program for United Nations Development Organizations - AGFUND, 12 December 2006, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw,
 International Conference on: Polish-Czech Cooperation in Globalization Context by Polish - Czech School of Business & Sports Collegium Glacense] in Nowa Ruda, St. Anna Mountain Region, 16-17 March 2007.
 International Conference of: Safety Technology & Technology of Safety, by The Network "MO-SIS" for Mobile Security Systems, Wroclaw 28-29 March 2007.
 15th & 16th Editions of REFE - the biggest Investment and Finances Fair in Central Europe, Wroclaw, 21-23 April 2006 and 18-20 April 2007.


- I am an Eastern & Central Europe - Regional Director of Saudi Business Focus Magazine.

Saudi Business Focus is the only English language Saudi business magazine, has broad distribution across the region and the world, reaching 120,000 VIP - Readers - with a specific focus on Saudi Arabia & the GCC countries -the desks of the Arab tycoons, the Heads of State, Members of the Royal Families; the decision makers in Saudi Arabia and in Europe, in the Far East and in North America, Australia, New Zealand.

- Main scientific attainments: (in an alphabetical order) with translation of titles written in Polish language elaborations into English language:

• Theses:
* Ayyoub S., A method for estimation the level of workers' physical efficiency in specific working environment /Ph.D. Dissertation in Management Science at the Faculty of Organization and Management, the Technical University of Lodz, 2002.
* Ayyoub S., Management by Exception method within free market economic conditions/ Master Thesis in Industrial Engineering at Faculty of Computer Science & Management, Wroclaw University of Technology, 1992.

• Scientific books:
* Ayyoub S., English- Polish Lexicon of Managerial Controlling, Wydawnictwo OPO - TNOiK, Bydgoszcz 2002
* Nahotko S., Ayyoub S., Operational and Financial Budgeting (methods & examples), Wydawnictwo OPO - TNOiK, Bydgoszcz 2002.

• Scientific publications:
* Ayyoub S., Complaints and chronic illnesses of Jordanian workers' motor system, [in:] Human Work Management, edited by Z. Galdzicki and T. Stalewski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw 2000.
* Ayyoub S., Developmental directions and tendencies of Controlling system, Badania Operacyjne i Decyzje (Journal: Operations research & decisions), No.1/1997.
* Ayyoub S., Problems of the Implementation of Controlling System in Polish Enterprises [in:] Information Systems - Architecture and Technology ISAT'95. Proceedings of the 17th ISAT Scientific School, edited by Mieczyslaw Bazewicz, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw 1995.
* Ayyoub S., Some advantages of investments in Wroclaw and in Lower Silesia, [in:] Polish Investor, Wroclaw 2007 (in print).

• Scientific review reports PREPRINT:
* Ayyoub S., Costs of development of controlling software: a role of managerial accounting and Japanese techniques, report no. 27/95, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw 1995.
* Ayyoub S., Problems of the Implementation of Controlling System in Polish Enterprises (empirical research), report no. 25/95, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw 1995.
* Ayyoub S., Tracking of new products, report no. 23/95, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw 1995.
* Ayyoub S., Providing every worker into implementation of innovation activity, report no. 24/95, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw 1995.

• Cultural publications:
* Ayyoub S., Snapshots from my life: 18 years passed like a day [in:] Quarterly Journal of Liaison Centre for Foreign Graduates of Polish Universities, Kontakt, Year 9, No. 1-2 (31-32) Lodz 2002.
* Ayyoub S., Wroclaw in a Foreigner's Eyes: Love at first hearing, [in:] Wroclaw: Your opportunity for business, July-December 1996, Pub. Prime Management & Business Engineering, on the order of Consulate of Great Britain in Wroclaw, Wroclaw 1996.[this article was published later in monthly Journal] Polish Market, No. 8 (24) AUGUST 1998.

• Scientific Reports in manuscripts form:
* Ayyoub S., Controlling as an enterprise management method, Wroclaw 1994.
* Ayyoub S., State of protection and safety of working conditions in Jordan, Wroclaw 1999.
* Ayyoub S., A review of anthropometrical researches in Jordan, Wroclaw 1998.
* Ayyoub S., Bases of Jordanian Labor Code, Wroclaw 1998.
* Ayyoub S., Premises of change of enterprise organization in Jordan: by application of Snap Reading (observation) and Management by Exceptions Methods, Wroclaw 2000.
* Ayyoub S., Impact of motor system's overloads on Jordanian workers' sickness absenteeism: by utilization of Experimental Design, Bayes's Portfolio and Correlation Analysis Methods, Wroclaw 1999.

• Scientific reviewing of the following papers:
* Gemunden H.G., Heydebreck P. & Herden R.- Technological Interweavement (Summary): A Mean of Achieving Innovation Success, Engineering and Management Review, Volume 22, No. 2, Summer 1994.
* Farrel J. Ch., "A Theory of Technological Progress, Engineering and Management Review, Volume 22, No. 1, Spring 1994.
* English John R., Fixed Control Limits for Continuous Flow Processes, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 41, No. 3, August 1994.
• Translation of the following documents and papers:
* Annual Report of Porcelana Walbrzych S. A.
* Catalogue of Italian Machines & Equipments.

A lot of articles in Arabic language were published in several gazettes and Internet Sites on multidisciplinary topics and issues (I am going to collect and translate them into English language.

- Education
• 2002–2003, Postdoctoral fellowship for Habilitation Degree of Science, at Wroclaw University of Economics in Wrocław, Poland. Under direction of Prof. Dr. Hab. Eng. Małgorzata Elżbieta Gableta,
• 1999–2002: Doctor of Economic Sciences (Ph.D. Degree) in the scope of Management Science, from Faculty of Organization and Management at Technical University of Łódź in Poland. The Supervisor of doctoral dissertation: Full Prof. Dr. Hab. Eng. Jerzy Bolesław Lewandowski.
• 1992: Master's degree of Industrial & Systems Engineering, from the Faculty of Computer Science & Management, at the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland. The Supervisor of his doctoral dissertation is Full Prof. Dr. Hab. Eng.Bronisław Pilawski.
• 1985–1991: B.Sc. of Industrial Organization Engineering, the Faculty of Computer Science & Management, at the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland.
• 1982–1984, Intermediate Diploma of Civil Engineering with Specialization of Building & Construction) from Al-Quds Community College for Managament & Technology (presently called Al Quds for Education, Training and Consultancy) in Amman - Jordan.
• 1982: Jordanian General Secondary Education Examination (Scientific Stream) at Salah Eddin Secondary School in Amman - Jordan.

- Linguistic Courses
• 1998: Certificate of Intensive Vocational Course of French Language for Beginners from Alliance Française Centre at Wroclaw University in Wrocław, Poland.
• 1992–1993: Certificate of Progress in Advanced English Language from Oxford House College in London, Great Britain.
• 1984–1985: Certificate of Polish Language Course from College of Polish Language for Foreigners, University of Łódźin Łódż, Poland.

- Academic Career
• 2004 -...: Ass. Professor at Faculty of Management & Marketing Polish-Czech School of Business & Sports, Collegium Glancensein Nowa Ruda, Poland,
• 2001- 2002, a scholar research in Faculty of Organization and Management at Technical University of Łódź in Łódź, Poland.
• 1999- 2001, a scholar research in Labour & Industrial Relations Departmentat Faculty of Engineering and Economics, at Wroclaw University of Economics in Wrocław, Poland.
• 1993- 1999, a scholar research in Institute of Engineering Cybernetics - presently Institute of Control Engineering & Robotics at Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. In cooperation with of the Late Full Prof. Dr. Hab. Med. Edward Ziobro from Institute of Industrial Engineering & Management.

- Non-academic Career
• 2006-...: Regional Director for Eastern & Central Europe of a leading Publishing and Public Relations company K-man Productions Ltd, which publishes several business magazines, such as:
* Saudi Business Focus Magazine,
* Arab Business Woman Magazine,
* Arab CEO Magazine,
* The House of Wisdom,
* Jordan Focus Magazine,
* Oman Business Focus Magazine,
* Gulf Business Focus Magazine,
* Saudi Business Review.

• 1997-..: Co-founder of Al-Jeel Al-Arabi, Publisher & Distributors.

* Professional Scientific Interests (as an academic teacher of following subjects):
* Logistics Management,
* World Business Tourism,
* International Enterprises Management,
* Organizational Behaviour,
* Innovation Management & Technology Transfer,
* Diplomatic Protocol,
* International Transport & Shipping Management,
* Multicultural Management,
* Business Negotiations,
* Marketing,
* Controlling.

- Human & Social-Scientific Interests:
* Multilingual Literature & Criticism, especially Arabic Poetry & Prose,
* Multicultural Studies Knowledge,
* World History especially Arab & Middle East Political history,
* Interreligious & Intercultural Dialogue.
* Islamic Issues, especially on:
* Children's Rights in Islam.
* The Status of Women in Islam.
* Islamic Scientists' Role in Human Civilization.
* Islamic Philosophy and Philosophers, e.g.: Averroes, Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Al-Ghazali and Al-Kindi and their influence on contemporary Philosophers (e.g.: Giordano Bruno, Francis Bacon, G.W. Leibniz, G. Berkeley, I. Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, and A. Schopenhauer.
* Ibn Khaldoun’s Rational Methodology in Sociological Analysis of History Events and impact of his sociological approach and ideas on David Reisman, Alvin Toffler, F. Nietzsche, and other thinkers, historians and sociologists.
* Cinema, see bellow.

Majority of the Greatest Actor Robert De Niro's Movies, such as (in chronological order):

1974 THE GODFATHER
1976 TAXI DRIVER
1978 THE DEER HUNTER
1980 RAGING BULL
1983 THE KING OF COMEDY
1984 FALLING IN LOVE
1984 ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
1986 THE MISSION
1987 ANGEL HEART
1987 THE UNTOUCHABLES
1988 MIDNIGHT RUN
1989 JACKNIFE
1989 WE'RE NO ANGELS
1990 AWAKENINGS
1990 GOODFELLAS
1991 GUILTY BY SUSPICION
1993 A BRONX TALE
1993 THIS BOY'S LIFE
1995 CASINO
1995 HEAT
1996 THE FAN
1997 COP LAND
1998 RONIN
1999 ANALYZE THIS I
2000 15 MINUTES
2000 MEN OF HONOR
2001 THE SCORE
2002 SHOWTIME
2003 ANALYZE THAT II

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Other movies with production year:

1939, Gone With the Wind, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland.
1941, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles.
1942, Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman.
1952, Viva Zapata, Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn.
1957, Eve Wants to Sleep, Barbara Kwiatkowska.
1957, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden, Jack Hawkins.
1959, Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon.
1965, For a Few Dollars More, Clint Eastwood, Lee van Cleef, Klaus Kinski.
1966, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef.
1966, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton.
1967, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford.
1967, Our Folks/All friends here, Waclaw Kowalski, Wladyslaw Hancza.
1968, Where Eagles Dare, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood.
1969, How I Unleashed The Second World War, Marian Kociniak, Leonard Pietraszak, Janina Borońska.
1970, The Cruise, Stanisław Tym, Zdzisław Maklakiewicz, Jan Himilsbach, Wojciech Pokora.
1972, The Good Soldier Švejk (Dobrý voják Švejk), Fritz Muliar.
1973, Louis L'Amour's (The Man Called Noon), Richard Crenna, Stephen Boyd.
1974, Murder on the Orient Express, Albert Finney, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave.
1974, Return of Great Blond, Pierre Richard.
1975, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson.
1976, All the President's Men, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman.
1976, The Toy (Le Jouet), Pierre Richard.
1977, A Bridge Too Far, Laurence Olivier, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, James Caan, Robert Redford.
1978, Superman, Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando.
1978, The Medusa Touch, Richard Burton.
1979, Kramer vs. Kramer, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep.
1980, The Blues Brothers, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown.
1981, Buddy, buddy, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau.
1981, The Goat (unlucky person) Pierre Richard.
1982, 48 Hours, Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte.
1982, Tootsie, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange.
1983, Les Comperes (Fathers' Day/Three Fathers), Gerard Depardieu, Pierre Richard.
1983, Trading Places, Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd.
1984, Amadeus, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce.
1984, Body Double, Melanie Griffith, Craig Wasson.
1984, Les Ripoux (Corrupts), Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte.
1984, Lily in Love/Playing for Keeps, Christopher Plummer, Maggie Smith.
1984, Thais, Dorota Kwiatkowska, Jerzy Kryszak.
1985, Macaroni, Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni.
1985, Out of Africa, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford.
1985, Prizzi's Honor, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner.
1986, Legal Eagles, Robert Redford, Debra Winger.
1987, Empire of the Sun, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson.
1987, House of Games, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna.
1987, No Way Out, Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman.
1987, Suspect, Liam Neeson, Cher, Dennis Quaid.
1987, The Last emperor, Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen.
1987, The Witches of Eastwick, Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer.
1988, A Short Film About Love, Grażyna Szapołowska, Olaf Lubaszenko.
1988, Coming to America, Eddie Murphy, Shari Headley, James Earl Jones.
1988, Dangerous Liaisons, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves.
1988, Mississippi Burning, Frances McDormand, Willem Dafoe, Gene Hackman.
1988, The Decalogue, Aleksander Bardini, Janusz Gajos.
1988, Things Change, Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna.
1989, A Dry White Season, Donald Sutherland, Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon.
1989, Born on the Fourth of July, Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe.
1989, Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams.
1989, Driving Miss Daisy, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd.
1989, Family Business, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick.
1989, Lean on Me, Morgan Freeman.
1989, The Bear, Tchéky Karyo.
1990, Revenge, Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn.
1991, The Double Life of Véronique, Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jędrusik.
1991, The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster.
1992, A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore.
1992, My Cousin Vinny, Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei.
1992, The Distinguished Gentleman, Eddie Murphy.
1993, Hijacking Agatha, Sławomir Federowicz, Karolina Rosińska, Jerzy Stuhr.
1993, Indecent Proposal, Robert Redford, Demi Moore.
1994, Leon the Professional, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman.
1994, The Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman.
1996, Primal Fear, Richard Gere, Edward Norton.
1999, Life, Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence.
1999, The Green Mile, Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan.
2000, Finding Forrester, Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham.
2001, The Pledge, Patricia Clarkson, Benicio del Toro, Jack Nicholson, Vanessa Redgrave.
2002, Catch Me If You Can, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks.
2002, Gangs of New York, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo Dicaprio, Cameron Diaz
2003/2004, Kill Bill, Uma Thurman, David Carradine.
2004/ Dae Jang Geum " 대장금 " or Jewel in the Palace, Lee Young-ae, Ji Jin-hee, Im Ho.
2006, The Da Vinci Code, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno.

My favorite authors and their books:

- Abbas El-Aqqad, Egypt (1889-1964), al-'Abkariat.
- Abdul Rahman Munif, Saudia Arabia - Jordan - Iraq (1933-2004), Cities of Salt Trilogy, Story of a City: A Childhood in Amman, Sharq al-Mutawassit (in the East of Mediterranean), Al-an huna (Now here).
- Agatha Christie, England (1890-1976), majority of her novels.
- Alaa Al Aswany, Egypt (1957- ),The Yacoubian Building.
- Alexander Pushkin, Russia (1799-1837), Dubrovsky, The Captain's Daughter.
- Alexandre Dumas fils (son), France, (1824 -1895), The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux camelias).
- Alexandre Dumas pere (father), France, (1802 - 1870), The Black Tulip, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers.
- Alvin Toffler, USA (1928- ), Future Shock, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Wave.
- Amin Yousseff Ghurab, Egypt (1911- 1970), A Woman's Youth (The Leech), Fog, Land of Sins, Road of Sins, The Closed Doors, Safira Aziza (AMBASSADRESS).
- Anton Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories.
- Aziz Nesin, Turkey (1915 -1995), The Monster of Toros, The Man Who Became a Woman.
- Boleslaw Prus, Poland (1847-1912), The Doll, Pharaoh.
- Boris Pasternak, Russia (1890-1960), Doctor Zhivago.
- Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist.
- Charlotte Bronte, England, (1816-1855) Jane Eyre.
- Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Romania (1916 - 1992), The twenty-fifth hour.
- Daniel Defoe, England (1660-1731), Robinson Crusoe.
- David Reisman, USA (1909-2002), The Lonely Crowd.
- Edgar Allan Poe, USA (1809-1849), The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Masque of the Red Death, The Complete Tales.
- Edmond Rostand, France (1868-1918), Cyrano de Bergerac.
- Edwar Al-Kharrat, Egypt (1926- ), Suffocations of Passion and the Morning.
- Edward Stachura, Poland (1937-1979), You must help me, Fabula Rasa, Everything is poetry.
- Edward W. Said, Palestine-USA(1935-2003), Orientalism, Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, Covering Islam, Out of Place (Edward Said's memoir).
- Elias Farkouh, Jordan (1948 - ), Columns of Dust.
- Emile Zola, France (1840-1902), Germinal, Nana.
- Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights.
- Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- Fathi Ghanem, Egypt (1924 -1999), Man Who Lost His Shadow.
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald, USA (1896 - 1940), The Beautiful and Damned.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude.
- George Eliot, England (1819 - 1880), Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.
- George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984, Animal Farm.
- Ghalib Halasa, Jordan (1932-1989), the Laugh, the Question, Crying on the Ruins, Three Faces of Baghdad, Star, the Novelists, Sultanah.
- Ghassan Kanafani, Palestine (1936-1972), Men in the Sun, Returning to Haifa, All That's Left to You, Death of Bed No. 12), The Land of Sad Oranges, A World that is Not Ours, Umm Sa'd, The Hat and the Prophet, A Bridge to Eternity.
- Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary.
- Guy de Maupassant, France (1850-1893), Madame Tellier's House - A Woman's Life.
- H. Rider Haggard, England (1856-1925), King Solomon's Mines.
- Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey.
- Honore de Balzac, France (1799-1850), Human Comedy (La Comedie humaine).
- Ibrahim Al-Koni, Lybia (1948 - ), The Cage, Bleeding of the Stone, The Mouth, Anubis.
- Ibrahim Aslan, Egypt (1937 - ), The Heron (Kit Kat).
- Ibrahim Nasrallah, Palestine - Jordan, (1954 -) Inside the Night.
- Ivan Turgenev, Russia (1818-1883), Ottsy i Deti or Fathers and Sons, First Love.
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Palestine (1919 - 1994), Hunters in a Narrow Street, Princesses' Street.
- Jalal ad-din Rumi, Khorasan - Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi.
- Jamal al- Ghitani, Egypt (1945- ), Hikayat el-Gharib, Waqi'i' Harat al-Za'farani.
- James Burke, England (1936-), The Day The Universe Changed.
- Jerzy Kosinski, Poland (1933-1991), Being There.
- Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels.
- Joseph Conrad - Korzeniowski, Poland, England (1857 - 1924), Lord Jim.
- Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace.
- Mahmoud Seif Eddin Al Irany, Jordan (-1974) Dust and Masks, Fingers in the Darkness.
- Marcel Proust, France (1871-1922), In Search of Lost Time.
- Margaret Mitchell, USA (1900-1949), Gone with the Wind.
- Mario Puzo, USA - Italy (1920-1999), The Godfather Trilogy.
- Maxim Gorky, Russia (1868-1936), Mother, Childhood.
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote.
- Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia (1891- 1940),The Master and Margarita.
- Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanon (1889 -1988), Book of Mirdad.
- Mikhail Sholokhov, Russia (1905-1984),(The Silent Don): And Quiet Flows the Don.
- Mohammed Hasanein Haikal, Egypt (1923- ), The Suez Files, Nasser: The Cairo Documents, The Road to Ramadan, The Sphinx and the Commissar: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Influence in the Middle East, Cutting the Lion's Tail: Suez Through Egyptian Eyes, The
- Muhammed al-Maghut, Syria (1934-2006), Exile (play), I will betray my homeland.
- Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt (1911-2006), Heart of the Night, Old Egypt, Whisper of Madness, Mockery of the Fates, Rhadopis of Nubia, The Struggle of Tyba, Modern Cairo, Khan al-Khalili, Midaq Alley, The Mirage, The Beginning and The End, Cairo Trilogy (Palace
- Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls.
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek.
- Prosper Merimee, France (1803-1870), Carmen.
- Rasul Gamzatov, Dagestan (1923-2003), My Dagestan.
- Sahar Khalifeh, Palestine (1941 - ) The Inheritance.
- Sir Walter Scott, Scotland (1771-1832), Ivanhoe.
- Sonallah Ibrahim, Egypt (1937 - ), Cairo From Edge To Edge.
- Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King.
- Stefan Zweig, Austria (1881-1942, Letter from an Unknown Woman.
- Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egypt (1898-1987), Return of the Spirit, The Diary of a Prosecutor in Rural Areas.
- Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North.
- Umberto Eco, Italy (1932- ), The Name of the Rose.
- Victor Hugo, France (1802-1885) The Miserable Ones, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- Walid Saif, Palestine-Jordan, (??) Palestinian Estrangement (Diaspora), the Long Road.
- William Durant, USA (1885-1981) & Ariel Durant, Ukraine (1898-1981), The Story of Civilization.
- William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), King Lear, The Merchant of Venice.
- William Somerset Maugham, England (1874-1965), Mrs Craddock, Ashenden, The Sacred Flame, Cakes and Ale, The Summing Up.
- Yahya Hakki, Egypt (1905-1990) Lamp of Umm Haskim.
- Yousef El Sebaie, Egypt (1917-1978), Land of Hypocrisy, The Water-Carrier Is Dead.
- Yusuf Idris, Egypt (1927 - 1991), Bottom of the city, The summons, A House of Flesh, Al-Farafir, The Sin, The Disgrace.

- Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (559 AD - 661 AD) (A.S.) said:
1) "Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land".

2)"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere".

- Umar bin Al-Khattab (rah)/(580 AD - 644 AD) said:
"Since when you have enslaved people and their mothers bore them free?".