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Nader Abu Tamer
My Head and The Globe
Palestine 3
Ziad Khadash
A Short Story Writer Who doesn’t Obey Army Orders
absurd - Arab-Israeli - arabic literature - irony - violence - writing

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Libya 3
Muhammad al-Asfar
The Story of a Sock
allegory - arabic literature - existentialism - family - love - poverty - surreal

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Tunisia 1
arabic literature - contemporary - kids-adventures - kids-fairy-tale

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Tunisia 4
Kamal Riahi
The Beretta Always Wins (A chapter from a novel)
arabic literature - contemporary - political - suspense

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Egypt 6
Yusuf Idris
The Cheapest Nights
Sudan 9
Yasin Suleiman
The Detective
Sudan 8
Mohamed Hassan AL-Nahat
Broca’s Area
arabic literature

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Palestine 1
Khalil Nasif
A Weevil
arabic literature

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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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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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