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Badriyyah al-Bishr (1967-, Saudi Arabia) – al-Urjūḥah (‘The swing’, 2010). This novel portrays three women from Saudi Arabia who have…

Najat al-Hachmi (1979-, Morocco) – Jo també Sóc Catalana (‘I too am Catalan’, 2004). This is an autobiographical essay written

Saʿīd Khaṭībī (1984-, Algeria) – Ḥatab Sarāyifū (‘Firewood of Sarajevo’, 2018). Two young people, the Algerian journalist Salīm and the

Ḥassan Blāsim (1973-, Iraq) – Allah 99 (2016, English trans. God 99, 2020). This novel follows Ḥassan Uwl, and Iraqi

Aḥmad Muḥsin (1984-, Lebanon) – Wārsū Qabla Qalīl (2014, ‘Warsaw a Little While Ago’). A Jewish pianist, Yūzīf, flees the

Mayādah Khalīl (1971-, Iraq) – Niskāfiyyah maʿ al-Sharīf al-Raḍḍī (‘Nescafé with al- Sharif al-Raddi’, 2016). Set between Baghdad and Amsterdam,

Amara Lakhous (1970-, Algeria) two novels Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio (2006, English trans. Clash of

Ḥannā Mīnah (1924 – 2018, Syria) – al-Rabīʿ wa al-Kharīf (‘Spring and Autumn’, 1986). This novel describes Karam, the main

Rashā ʿAbbās’ (1984-, Syria) short story collection Kayf tamm Ikhtirāʿ al-Lughah al-Almāniyyah (‘The invention of German grammar’, 2016). With an