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IPAF 2017 · Shortlist
In the Spider's Room
في غرفة العنكبوت · Fi ghurfat al-'ankabut
Muhammad Abdelnabi · 39 when first published
Novel · 264 pages
AI-generated summary:Hani Mahfouz, acquitted after his arrest in the 2001 Queen Boat case in Cairo, leaves prison a broken man who has lost his voice, and begins to write every day about everything.