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Visitors walk in a labyrinth installation made up of 250,000 books titled “aMAZEme” by Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo at the Royal Festival Hall in central London July 31, 2012. REUTERS/Olivia Harris

Six Novels Compete over IPAF ‘Arab Booker’

by Mirza Al-Khuwaylidi | Feb 17, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Dammam – The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), announced on Thursday the shortlist for the 2017 prize, which includes six novels from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon and Egypt. The list consists of Kuwaiti Ismail Fahd Ismail, for...

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The sun sets behind the High Atlas on April 1 , 2014, seen from desert plains near the city of Errachidia. AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA

Out of Place in Morocco

by Al-Mustafa Najjar | May 16, 2014 | Book Reviews

[inset_left]The Arch and The ButterflyBy Mohammed AchaariTranslated by Aida Bamia324 pages Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, Doha: May 2014[/inset_left]It is a rather disappointing beginning: the narrator, a middle-aged, Left-leaning Moroccan journalist,...

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Iraqi writer Ahmad Saadawi wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction

by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Apr 30, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi novelist Ahmad Saadawi was named the winner of the seventh International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in a ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, in recognition of his latest novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad. Saadawi lauded the IPAF award in...

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Ahmed Mourad. (Courtesy of the writer)

Egypt’s bestselling author tackles social woes with a surrealist twist

by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Apr 26, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Blue Elephant (2012), best-selling Egyptian writer Ahmed Mourad’s phantasmagoric novel shortlisted for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), delves into the shadowy worlds of magic, sorcery, psychiatry and drug...

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North African author exposes a dark spot in Morocco’s history

by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Apr 19, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—In his latest book, A Rare Blue Bird that Flies with Me, Moroccan writer Youssef Fadel takes the reader on a vividly imaginative odyssey through a dreary period of Morocco’s history. Fadel’s ninth novel is a fictional testament to the Years of...