Longlist 2020

What About Rachel, the Jewish Lady?
Salim Barakat
Syria
Arabic Institute for Research and Publishing
The War of the Gazelle
Aisha Ibrahim
Libya
Tripoli Scientific Bookshop
The Tank
Alia Mamdouh
Iraq
Al-Mutawassit
The Stairs of Trolar
Samir Kacimi
Algeria
Editions Barzakh
The Spartan Court
Abdelouahab Aissaoui
Algeria
Dar Min
The Russian Quarter
Khalil Alrez
Syria
Difaf Publishing
The Mingling of the Seasons
Bachir Mefti
Algeria
Al-Ikhtilef
The Last Days of the Pasha
Rasha Adly
Eqypt
Arab Scientific Publishers
The King of India
Jabbour Douaihy
Lebanon
Dar Al Saqi
Sleeping in the Cherry Field
Azher Jerjis
Baghdad
Dar al-Rafidain
Seferberlik
Magbool Al-Alawi
Saudi Arabia
Dar Al Saqi
No-one Prayed Over Their Graves
Khaled Khalifa
Syria
Hachette Antoine/Naufal
Hammam Dhahab
Mohammed Eissa al-Mu’adab
Tunisia
Mesaa
Firewood of Sarajevo
Said Khatibi
Algeria
Al-Ikhtilef
Fardeqan – the Detention of the Great Sheikh
Youssef Ziedan
Egypt
Dar al-Shorouk
Al-Mutanabbi’s Rabat
Hassan Aourid
Morocco
Al-Markez al-Thaqafi al-Arabi

2019 Longlist

24/01/2020

Interview with longlisted author Bachir Mefti
When did you begin writing The Mingling of the Seasons and where did the inspiration for it come from? A year after the publication of my novel Game of Happiness, I had a new...
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23/01/2020

Interview with longlisted author Alia Mamdouh
When did you begin writing The Tank and where did the inspiration for it come from? I started working on The Tank at the end of 2013. The inspiration for every novel I have...
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22/01/2020

Interview with longlisted author Said Khatibi
When did you begin writing Firewood of Sarajevo and where did the inspiration for it come from? I had the idea seven years ago, as I was wandering around Sarajevo, talking to...
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