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Praise for the Women of the Family
مديح لنساء العائلة · Madih li-nisa' al-'a'ila
Mahmoud Shukair · 74 when first published
Novel · 240 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:The women of the Abd al-Lat clan, newly settled near Jerusalem, set tongues wagging as they shed the old ways, while Muhammad, son of the ageing patriarch Mannan, writes the clan's history in their honour.