108 Mohammed Alnaas: A Place Where Dogs Dare Not

Roam, a short story, translated by Zeena Faulk 128 Ezzat el-Kamhawi: The Travellers’ Room

Excerpts from Ghurfat al-Musafireen, translated by Paul Starkey 139 Fayez Ghazi: The Travellers’ Room: Moving to escape time 143 THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION

Excerpts from the Shortlist 2022 148 Cairo Maquette by Tareq Imam 154 Rose’s Diary by Reem al-Kamali 162 Dilshad by Bushra Khalfan 169 The Prisoner of the Portuguese by Mohsine Loukili 174 The White Line of Night by Khalid Al-Nassrallah 179 Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table by Mohammed Alnaas

BOOK REVIEWS 185 Samira Kawar reviews The Girl With Braided Hair by

Rasha Adly, translated by Sarah Enany 189 The Winner of the 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize 190 Joselyn Michelle Almeida reviews Things You May Find

Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha 194 Stephanie Petit reviews Solitaire by Hassouna

Mosbahi, translated by William Maynard Hutchins 197 Norah Alkharashi reviews Packaged Lives: Ten Stories and a Novella by Haifa Zangana, translated by Wenchin Ouyang 200 Fayez Ghazi reviews Jarima lam Taktubha Agatha

Cristie, (A Crime That Agatha Christie Didn’t Write) by Yousif Abu Al-Fawz 205 Joselyn Michelle Almeida reviews A Song by the

Aegean Sea by Mohamed Metwalli, translated by Gretchen McCullough and the author 209 AND . . . BOOKS RECEIVED 210 SHEIKH ZAYED BOOK AWARD

Shortlists for 2022 EVENTS 214 Nouri Al-Jarrah at StAnza 2022 216 Khaled Khalifa: The 2022 Banipal Visiting Writer

Fellowship Lecture 221 CONTRIBUTORS

Emna Rmili

Mohamed Choukri

Ezzat el-Kamhawi

Reem al-Kamali

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