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Nadia Najar

نادية النجار

Born 1974 · United Arab Emirates

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    IPAF 2025 · Shortlist

    ملمس الضوء

    Malmas al-daw'

    Title translated by AI:“The Touch of Light”

    Nadia Najar · 50 when first published

    Novel · 247 pages · Family, Historical

    AI-generated summary:A blind woman uses a phone app that describes photographs to tell the stories behind her family's pictures, and with them the history of Dubai and Bahrain before and after oil.