Kawkab Anbar
''Amber Planet or Kawkab Anbar (كوكب عنبر) is a book by author Mohamed Rabie Kotb Aboelsebah. An Arabic novel, From Yousef Rakha, writing about Aboelsebah's book: “Kawkab ‘Anbar is the story of the eponymous, little known library (named after its original owner’s wife), a public endowment in Abbassiya on the verge of being demolished to make way for a new underground Metro line. It is told by Shahir, the endowments official who is sent there on a month-long assignment to put together a report on the library – a perfunctory, routine procedure intended to facilitate the foregone conclusion of its demolition by establishing that, all things considered, there is no reason for it to remain standing.” References {{reflist Arabic-language novels ...
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Mohamed Rabie
Mohammad Rabie (born 1978) is an Egyptian writer. He studied civil engineering in Higher Technological Institute. His novel ''Kawkab Anbar'' (2010) won the Sawiris Cultural Award in 2011. He has since published two more novels: ''Year of the Dragon'' (2012) and ''Otared'' (2014). Otared was nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2016. Rabie was also a participant at the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Nadwa The International Prize for Arabic Fiction Nadwa is an annual writers' workshop for young writers from the Arab world. Held under the aegis of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (itself funded by the Emirates Foundation in Abu Dhabi), the ..., an annual workshop for promising young Arab writers. References 1978 births Living people Egyptian novelists {{Egypt-writer-stub ...
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