- Amīr Tāj al-Sir (1960-, Sudan) – Iybūlā 76 (2012, English trans. Ebola 76, 2015). This short novel is a fictional account of the 1976 Ebola outbreak in Sudan (reference). Its protagonist is a Sudanese factory worker, Lūwīs Nawā, who caught the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo when visiting his mistress and transported it to his hometown of Nzara in southern Sudan, where the first outbreak took place. The novel describes how the disease spreads, first to Lūwīs’ wife and then throughout the village, while the rich are protected by their compounds.
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- Maʿan al-Biyyārī. 2014. “Iybūlā’ fī Riwāyah ʿArabiyyah.” www.alaraby.co.uk, 7 November 2021 https://www.alaraby.co.uk/%22%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%22-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9 (last accessed 7 October, 2021)