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International Prize for Arabic Fiction Reveals 2025 Longlist

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International Prize for Arabic Fiction Reveals 2025 Longlist

The longlist for the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was revealed recently, featuring 16 novels running for a $50,000 prize.

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The longlist was chosen from a total of 124 submissions by a panel of five judges. The panel features Egyptian academic Mona Baker, Moroccan academic and critic Said Bengrad, Emirati critic and academic Maryam Al-Hashimi, Lebanese researcher and academic Bilal Orfali, and Finnish translator Sampsa Peltonen.

The 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist:

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  • Aqeel Almusawi’s 'The Weepers' (Bahrain)
  • Inam Bioud’s 'Houwariya' (Algeria)
  • Rashid Al-Daif’s 'What Zeina Saw and What She Didn’t' (Lebanon)
  • Ahmed Fal Al-Din’s 'Danshmand' (Mauritania)
  • Jan Dost’s 'The French Prisoner' (Syria)
  • Sausan Jamil Hasan’s 'Heiress of the Keys' (Syria)

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  • Iman Humaydan’s 'Songs for the Darkness' (Lebanon)
  • Azher Jirjees 'The Valley of the Butterflies' (Iraq)
  • Hasan Kamal’s 'The Stolen Novel' (Egypt)
  • Taissier Khalaf’s 'The Andalusian Messiah' (Syria)
  • Ahmed Al-Malawany’s 'Happy Dreams' (Egypt)

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  • Mohamed Samir Nada’s 'The Prayer of Anxiety' (Egypt)
  • Nadia Najar’s 'The Touch of Light' (United Arab Emirates)
  • Haneen Al-Sayegh’s 'The Women’s Charter' (Lebanon)
  • Sumar Shihada’s 'My Life Has Just Begun' (Syria)
  • Ayman Ragab Taher’s 'The Lamplighter' (Egypt)
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