Six authors from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are on the shortlist as finalists for the first-ever International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The shortlisted books, chosen from 131 entries, are “June ...
The Arabic Booker shortlist includes Ibrahim Issa, the only Egyptian, and excludes big names like Lebanon's Elias Khoury, who was on the longlist for his novel Sinalcol Here is a synopsis of the six ...