English
Sudan 8
Mohamed Hassan AL-Nahat
Broca’s Area
arabic literature

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Syria 6
Jan Dost
The Veiled Man
arabic literature - father and son - homosexuality - horror - Oedipal - violence

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Egypt 3
Mohammed Salah Rajeh
The Seventh Floor
allegory - Arab-Israeli - contemporary - religion - speculative

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Tunisia 5
Kamal Riahi
Insurrection – A chapter from “The Gorilla”
arabic literature - contemporary - history - insurrection - political

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Israel 4
Nir Soffer-Dudek
Taqsim Hyena
allegory - angst - animals - contemplative - contemporary - mystery

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Israel 4
Tasha Karluka
And Then — Nina Simone Began to Sing
despair - funny - money - Tel-Aviv - urban - witty

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Tunisia 6
Ziad Abd el-Qadir
A Grainless Mill
arabic literature - contemplative - contemporary - writing

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Sweden 31
Jonas Karlsson
Getting Ahead
absurd - loneliness - madness - psychological - surreal - suspense

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Mexico 5
Fernanda Melchor
A Prison Out of the Movies
Latin America - oppression - political - realism

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Spain 24
Cristina Fernández Cubas
The Woman in Green
Christmas - dark - horror - Latin America - madness - murder - mystery - psychological - suspense

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Israel 8
Vered Singer
It Will All Be Over by Next Rosh Hashanah
class-gap - immigration - realism - working class

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Palestine 8
Asmaa al-Ghoul
The Battle of Tel el-Hawa
arabic literature - irony - Israeli-Palestinian - political - war

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