Jabbour Douaihy on the IPAF’s longlist for the third time! – for “American Neighborhood”
For the third time, the Lebanese novelist Jabbour Douaihy is on the long list of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. This time, it’s for his novel “American Neighborhood”, published at Dar al Saqi. Another of Dar al Saqi’s titles is long-listed: The Daughter of Suslov, bu Yemeni novelist Habib Abdulrab Sarori.
Other long- listed titles include:
A Suspended Life, Atef Abu Saif (Palestine), Al-Ahlia
Far from Clamour, Close to Silence, Mohammed Berrada (Morocco), Le Fennec
Drowning in Lake Morez, Antoine Douaihy (Lebanon), Dar al-Mourad
The American Neighbourhood, Jabbour Douaihy (Lebanon), Dar al Saqi
Floor 99, Jana Elhassan (Lebanon), Difaf Publications
Diamonds and Women, Lina Huyan Elhassan (Syria), Dar al-Adab
Don’t Tell Your Nightmare! Abdel Wahab al-Hamadi (Kuwait), Al-Markez al-Thaqafi al-Arabi
Female Voices, Maha Hassan (Syria), Dar Tanweer, Lebanon
Riyam and Kafa, Hadia Hussein (Iraq), Arab Institute for Research and Publishing
Sharp Turning, Ashraf al-Khamaisi (Egypt), Al-Dar al-Masriya al-Lubnaniya
Graphite, Hisham al-Khashin (Egypt), Maktabat al-Dar al-Arabiyya lil Kitab
The Italian, Shukri al-Mabkhout (Tunisia), Dar Tanweer
Tunis Willow Alley, Ahmed al-Madeeni (Morocco), Al-Markez al-Thaqafi al-Arabi
The Daughter of Suslov, Habib Abdulrab Sarori (Yemen), Dar al Saqi
The Size of a Grape, Muna al-Sheemi (Egypt), Al-Hadara
The Longing of the Dervish, Hammour Ziada (Sudan), Dar al-Ain