Amir Tag Elsir

Books on prize lists

• زهور تأكلها النار

  In English

  SaveFlowers in Flames to read later

  IPAF 2018 · Shortlist

  Flowers in Flames

  زهور تأكلها النار · Zuhur ta'kuluha al-nar

  Amir Tag Elsir · 56 when first published

  Novel · 189 pages · War, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Khamila, beautiful and rich, comes home from her studies in Egypt to the cosmopolitan town of al-Sur just as a group of religious zealots appears on its walls and then seizes the town.

• صائد اليرقات

  In English

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  IPAF 2011 · Shortlist

  The Grub Hunter

  صائد اليرقات · Sa'id al-yaraqat

  Amir Tag Elsir · 50 when first published

  Novel · 133 pages · Satire, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Forced to retire after losing a leg in an accident, a former intelligence agent decides to write a novel about his years of spying and starts frequenting the writers' café he once kept under watch.