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The City of Endless Walls | Madinat al-hawaet alla-nehaiya

The City of Endless Walls is a Thousand and One Nights-esque collection of interlinked tales in which a town’s inhabitants decide to demolish the walls of their homes and build four giant walls around the whole city. Their goal is to make the whole town live in one shared home so that they become one family. But instead, every day, a new town resident is murdered by an unknown killer. The book is divided into thirty-six tales and three chapters: the women of the city of walls, the men of the city of walls, and the strangers of the city of walls. The city where the tales take place has no known name, nor do we know the time when the tales take place. The one thing we know is that it exists in an Arab, Eastern setting. Meanwhile, the tales of the book are interconnected through the place, as characters often disappear only to reappear once again in another tale. This is a thrilling, wild, and sometimes frightening read. It is full of strange tales and superstitions to keep the reader constantly on edge.

Tareq Imam

Tareq Imam is an acclaimed and award-winning young novelist who published his first short story collection at the age of eighteen. He is well-known for his short stories—his story “An Eye” won the international Museum of Words competition in 2013—but he has also authored eleven novels and seen work translated into English, French, Spanish and Italian. His novel The Silence of the Killers is being adapted to film.

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French Clouds | Ghoyoum Faranseya

The Ways of the Lord | Turuq al-rab

The House of the Copt | Bayt al-qibteya

Shubeik Lubeik | Shubeik lubeik

Slipping | Iflat al-asabi’

The City of Endless Walls | Madinat al-hawaet alla-nehaiya

Zouba’s Theatre | Masrah Zouba