Lit in Translation

العاطل

al-'Atil

“The Unemployed” (title translated by AI)

Nasser Iraq (ناصر عراق, born 1961)

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An educated young Egyptian from a modest family finds no work in Cairo and leaves for Dubai, where a world of new people and nationalities opens up to him, along with the kindness and meanness of friends and relatives.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
335 pages in the original
Genres
Migration (assigned by AI)
Set in
Egypt, United Arab Emirates
First published
2011 by Al-Dar al-Masriya al-Lubnaniya
Author's age
50 when first published
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