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Dec 15

Arabic “Booker Prize” surrounded in controversy

Wednesday, 15. December 2010 19:35

Prestigious Arabic Booker plagued by criticisms

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/12/15/emirates-arabic-prize-idUSLDE6BB06220101215

Category:Literature, Published articles - older stuff | Comment (0) | Author: admin

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Andrew Hammond is a journalist and writer who has worked for BBC Arabic radio, Cairo Times and Reuters, where he ran the Saudi bureau for three years. He authored The Islamic Utopia: The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia, Popular Culture in the Arab World and What the Arabs Think of America. His work in the Middle East has taken him from Saddam's Iraq and the dungeons of Egyptian state security in Lazoghly, to the hajj in Mecca and revolution on the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain.

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