Taher al-Zahrani
2014 Participant
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Taher al-Zahrani (Saudi Arabia) is a short story writer and novelist, born in Jeddah in 1978. He has published several novels, including: Towards the South (2010), Children of the Street (2013) and The Mechanic (2014). He is also the author of a collection of short stories entitled The Vendor's Box (2010). He works in the government media centre in Jeddah and freelances as a journalist.