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Bushra al-Maqtari

بشرى المقطري

Born 1979 · Yemen

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  • In English

    Warwick Prize 2023 · Shortlist

    What Have You Left Behind?

    ماذا تركتَ وراءك؟ · Madha tarakta wara'ak?

    Bushra al-Maqtari · 39 when first published

    Nonfiction · 200 pages · War, Politics

    Translated by Sawad Hussain

    AI-generated summary:Survivors of Yemen's war, people who have lost relatives and homes, bear witness to the dead and to the destruction they lived through, in testimonies gathered so that a forgotten war and its victims are not erased.