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Haggag Oddoul

حجاج أدول

Born 1944 · Egypt

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    Sawiris 2005 · Winner

    معتوق الخير

    Ma'tuq al-khayr

    Haggag Oddoul · 58 when first published

    Novel · Historical, Family

    AI-generated summary:In a Nubian community on the Nile at the end of the Ottoman era, the lives of a great many villagers cross, each caught between the clan's settled customs and the urge to break with them.