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A vast cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, where 5 million bodies lie buried. (Reuters/Akram Saleh)
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File photo of the Moroccan countryside, looking out to the coast. (REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal)
Moroccan novelist Abdelrahim Lahbibi’s Journey from Obscurity to the Limelight
London, Asharq Al-Awsat— Moroccan novelist Abdelrahim Lahbibi’s name was not very familiar to Arab readers before his third novel, The Journeys of ’Abdi, Known as the Son of Hamriya, made it onto this year’s shortlist for the much-vaunted International Prize for...Caption:
File photo of Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa. (Courtesy of the writer.)
Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa: Aleppo is my favourite place to write about
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Novelist and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa is one of the few Syrian writers who can be said to have truly broken the wall of silence. His oeuvre breaks down deep-seated taboos in Syrian and Arab societies. Khalifa came to the limelight with the...Caption:
File photo of Iraqi novelist Ahmad Saadawi. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Novelist Ahmad Saadawi creates an Iraqi Frankenstein
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—It was not surprising that the Iraqi novelist Ahmad Saadawi made it onto this year’s shortlist for the coveted International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). The young Iraqi novelist came to immediate fame with the publication of his third...Caption:
Images of the front covers of the 2014 Arab Booker prize long list. (Courtesy of the Arab Booker Prize)