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Demand for Dorit Rabinyan’s Borderlife has apparently surged since the novel — which details a Muslim-Jewish love story — was excluded from Israel’s high-school curriculum as depicting “miscegenation” and “threatening Jewish identity.”

Novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji, author of The Use of Life, and Akhbar al-Adab editor Tarek al-Taher were both acquitted on Saturday of charges of “harming public morality.”

“This autobiographical novel, about Khalifa’s thirteen years in a Syrian prison, has already appeared in strong French translation from Stéphanie Dujols (La Coquille), and in 2016 will be issued in English, published by Interlink.”

“For me, the best novel published in 2015 is Mohamed Rabie’s ‘Otared.'” – Yasser Abdel Latif.

“In all my writing I try to destroy different faces of dictatorship and of totalitarian authority, whether political, social or religious.”

“Hashem believes that the trigger for the raid was a book launch scheduled for Monday evening, Ashraf Abdel Shafy’s ‘Vodka.'”