جبور الدويهي
Born 1949 · Lebanon
IPAF 2020 · Shortlist
ملك الهند · Malik al-Hind
Jabbour Douaihy · 70 when first published
Novel · 220 pages · Crime, Family
AI-generated summary:Days after coming home to the village of Tel Safra from long years abroad, carrying a painting by Chagall, Zakaria Mubarak is found murdered at the edge of the village.
IPAF 2012 · Shortlist
Sharid al-Manazil
Title translated by AI:“The Vagrant”
Jabbour Douaihy · 61 when first published
Novel · 257 pages · War, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Nizam, born to a Muslim family but raised by a Christian one, belongs to no sect or region. As a young man he throws himself into the free, restless Beirut of the 1960s and early 1970s, before the city falls apart.
IPAF 2008 · Shortlist
مطر حزيران · Matar Huzayran
Jabbour Douaihy · 57 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:Years after his father was killed in a massacre in their northern Lebanese village church in June 1957, Elia Kfoury returns from the United States to find out who he really is.