Ibrahim Farghali

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• معبد أنامل الحرير

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  Sawiris 2016 · ★ Winner

  معبد أنامل الحرير

  Ma'bad anamil al-harir

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Temple of Silken Fingertips”

  Ibrahim Farghali · 48 when first published

  Novel · 527 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:A writer leaps from a boat at sea to escape his pursuers, leaving his manuscript behind, and the manuscript itself tells what becomes of it as it drifts from reader to reader.

• أبناء الجبلاوي

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  Sawiris 2012 · ★ Winner

  أبناء الجبلاوي

  Abna' al-Jabalawi

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Sons of Gabalawi”

  Ibrahim Farghali · 42 when first published

  Novel · 470 pages · Speculative

  AIAI-generated summary:The books of Naguib Mahfouz have vanished, perhaps for good, and a calligrapher who is writing an old man's life story in a care home wonders where they went, while Mahfouz's characters seem to walk the streets.