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

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Palestine 8
Emile Habiby
Mandelbaum Gate
Arab-Israeli - arabic literature - history - political - realism

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Israel 5
Hisham Naffa
The Shoe
atmospheric - contemplative - introspective - loneliness - melancholy

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Tunisia 5
Shukri al-Mabkhout
Baganda (A chapter from a novel)
arabic literature - irony - secret - sport - suspense

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Morocco 2
Samir Salmi
Black Cats
arabic literature - atmospheric - horror - religion

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Tunisia 12
Maha Jouini
The Last Arab Man
arabic literature - female authors - manhood - romance - witty

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Syria 4
Jan Dost
A Pleasant Countenance
Iraq 19
Samuel Shimon
Two Royalists in Quatorze Juillet (a chapter from “An Iraqi in Paris”)
arabic literature - colonialism - existentialism - lovers - political - sexuality

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Iraq 3
Adham Adel
Extinction
allegory - arabic literature - introspective - murder - violence

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Sudan 7
Omayma Abdullah
The Route through Purgatory
arabic literature - death - refugees - war

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Syria 5
Ahmed Omar
River of Honey, Lake of Milk
arabic literature - atmospheric - childhood - coming of age - Freudian - melancholy - unrequited love

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Tunisia 5
Kamal Riahi
Moscow
arabic literature - objectification - Russia - sexuality

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