Mohammed Hasan Alwan

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• موت صغير

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  IPAF 2017 · ★ Winner

  Ibn Arabi's Small Death

  موت صغير · Mawt saghir

  Mohammed Hasan Alwan · 37 when first published

  Novel · 426 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:An imagined life of the Sufi master Muhyi al-Din Ibn Arabi, from his birth in al-Andalus in the twelfth century through a lifetime of journeys across the Islamic world.

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  IPAF 2013 · Shortlist

  القندس

  al-Qundus

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Beaver”

  Mohammed Hasan Alwan · 32 when first published

  Novel · 319 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:At forty and disillusioned, Ghalib al-Wajzi leaves Riyadh for Portland, Oregon. Fishing on the Willamette River in the company of a beaver, he goes back over three generations of his fractured family.