Inaam Kachachi

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• النبيذة

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  IPAF 2019 · Shortlist

  النبيذة

  Al-Nabidha

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Outcast”

  Inaam Kachachi · 65 when first published

  Novel · 325 pages · Historical, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Taj al-Muluk, a journalist who ran the first magazine in Baghdad under the monarchy, is drawn into anti-government activity and leaves to work for an Arabic radio station in Karachi.

• طشاري

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  IPAF 2014 · Shortlist

  The Dispersal

  طشاري · Tashari

  Inaam Kachachi · 61 when first published

  Novel · 256 pages · Migration, Family, War

  AIAI-generated summary:Wardiya Iskandar, a doctor who worked in the villages of southern Iraq in the 1950s, ends up in Paris while her children are scattered across three continents, and her grandson builds the family a cemetery on the internet.

• الحفيدة الأميركية

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  IPAF 2009 · Shortlist

  The American Granddaughter

  الحفيدة الأميركية · Al-Hafida al-amrikiyya

  Inaam Kachachi · 56 when first published

  Novel · 182 pages · War, Family, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:Zeina, an Iraqi-born American, returns to Iraq after the 2003 invasion as an interpreter for the US Army and finds herself torn between the two countries she belongs to.