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YemenAden admin / January 11, 2025 ʿAlī al-Muqrī (1966-, Yemen) – Bakhūr ʿAdanī (‘Adeni incense’, 2014). This novel is set in the Yemeni city of Aden
United Arab EmiratesDubai admin / January 11, 2025 Ziyād ʿAbd Allāh (1975-, Syria) – Barr Dubay (‘Dubai bar’, 2008). This novel reflects on the changes that the city
TunisiaTunis admin / January 11, 2025 Emna Bel Haj Yahia’s (1945-, Tunisia) L’Étage invisible (‘The invisible floor’, 1996) focusses on the lives of two dissimilar siblings,
SyriaDamascus admin / January 10, 2025 Ḥaydar Ḥaydar (1936 – 2023, Syria) – al-Zaman al-Muwaḥḥash (‘A dreary time’, 1973) depicts a group of people moving from
SyriaAleppo admin / January 10, 2025 Ṣidqī Ismāʿīl (1924 – 1972, Syria) – al-ʿUṣāh (‘The rebels’, 1964). This novel portrays the effects of political corruption in
SudanKhartoum admin / January 10, 2025 ʿAzzaldīn Shukrī Fashīr (1966-, Egypt) – Ghurfat al-ʿInāyah al-Markaziyyah (‘Intensive Care Unit’, 2008). When the Egyptian consulate in Khartoum is
Saudi ArabiaRiyadh admin / January 10, 2025 Badriyyah al-Bishr (1967-, Saudi Arabia) – Gharamiyyāt Shāriʿ al-Aʿshā (‘Love stories on al-Asha Street’, 2013). Set in the Manfūha district
Saudi ArabiaMecca admin / January 10, 2025 Rajāʾ ʿĀlim (1970-, Saudi Arabia) – Ṭawq al-Hamām (2010, English trans. The Dove’s Necklace, 2016). An unidentified body of a
