Waheed al-Taweela

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• جنازة جديدة لعماد حمدي

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  Sawiris 2020 · Shortlist

  جنازة جديدة لعماد حمدي

  Janaza jadida li-'Imad Hamdi

  AITitle translated by AI:“A New Funeral for Imad Hamdi”

  Waheed al-Taweela · 59 when first published

  Novel · 303 pages · Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:A police officer with an artist's soul, pushed into the police academy by his father, moves through an underworld of killers, informers, thugs and prostitutes, torn between his art and the crime and corruption he fights.

• باب الليل

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  Sawiris 2015 · ★ Winner

  باب الليل

  Bab al-layl

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Gate of Night”

  Waheed al-Taweela · 53 when first published

  Novel · 247 pages · Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:In a café in Tunisia where women sell pleasure to disappointed men, passing affairs open onto the state of Tunisian society and of the Arab world, Palestine included.