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الطلياني · al-Talyani

Shukri Mabkhout (شكري المبخوت, born 1962)

Translated by Miled Faiza, Karen McNeil

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During Hajj Mahmoud's burial, his son Abdel Nasser, known as the Italian, strikes the neighbourhood imam before the mourners. A friend retraces his path from boyhood: a leftist student in late-Bourguiba Tunisia caught between Islamists, the left and a crumbling regime, a journalist facing censorship, and the lover of Zeina, a gifted philosophy student.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Politics, Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
Tunisia, 1980s–1990s
First published
2014 by Dar al-Tanwir
Author's age
52 when first published
ISBN

9781609457013 (Europa Editions, United States)

9781787703179 (Europa Editions, United Kingdom)

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