Arabic classics in English translation

Read the Thousand and One Nights, Ibn Tufail and Kahlil Gibran in English, with a translation into Russian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish or Arabic aligned under every sentence. A story you already know makes English reading dramatically easier.

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