In the Spider''s Room

Name: In the Spider''s Room
Brand: The American University in Cairo Press
SKU: 9789774168758
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By (author): Muhammad Abdelnabi

Translated by: Jonathan Wright

Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo's Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven-month nightmare as he was swept up, along with fifty other men, in the infamous Queen Boat affair that targeted Egypts gay community. Finally free, but traumatized into speechlessness, Hani writes down the events of his lifehis first sexual desires, his relationship with his mother, his marriage of convenience, and his passion for Abdel Aziz, the only man he ever truly loved. In the Spiders Room is a sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt. See more

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Dimensions: 135 x 200mm
Publication Date: 30 Jul 2018
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Publication City/Country: Egypt
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789774168758

About Muhammad Abdelnabi

Born in 1978 Muhammad Abdelnabi is the author of two novels and four short-story collections. His The Ghost of Anton Chekov won first prize in the Emerging Writers category of the Sawiris Cultural Award for short-story collections in 2011. In the Spider's Room was shorlisted for the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and was joint-winner of the 2017 Sawiris Cultural Award for novels in the Emerging Writers category. He lives near Banha in Egypt. Translator of the winning novel in the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and twice winner of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Jonathan Wright was formerly the Reuters bureau chief in Cairo. He has translated Alaa Al Aswany Youssef Ziedan and Hassan Blassim. He lives in London UK.