Listen to BBC Radio 4's interview from the IPAF shortlist event in Cairo

13 January 2012

On Wednesday evening, the Prize held an audience with the newly revealed 2012 judges within a courtyard of Qasr Amir Taz, a fourteenth century Mamluk palace in Old Cairo.

BBC presenter Robin Lustig was there and had a chance to speak to two of the judges – Hodda Elsadda and Maudie Bitar – and one of the shortlisted novelists, Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, about the 2012 shortlist and the influence the Arab Spring will have on Arabic literature. You can hear the interview, which was broadcast on Radio 4’s The World Tonight on Wednesday night, here.