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Mohamed Abouzeid

محمد أبو زيد

Born 1980 · Egypt

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    Sawiris 2021 · Winner

    عنكبوت في القلب

    'Ankabut fi al-qalb

    Title translated by AI:“A Spider in the Heart”

    Mohamed Abouzeid · 38 when first published

    Novel · 218 pages · Speculative

    AI-generated summary:Two people living on the edges of life meet by chance and find themselves facing a strange, fantastical world; one of them, Mervat, cleans her neighbours' walls only to rescue the spiders.