On Monday evening, the American University of Beirut’s West hall auditorium featured an impressive pannel of Arab authors, come from countries who have known, and are still knowing, uprisings: Tunisia, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt, and Lebanon. Among the panelists were authors Khaled Khalifa and Kamal Al Riahi, from RAYA’s list.

“A tragedy narrated, pursued chapter after chapter, and its threads woven with great ability, talent and ingenuity by the Lebanese novelist Jabbour Douaihy, in his magnificent novel ‘Chased away’, one of the six shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, 2012.”

“Yazbek’s language is at times poetic, but mostly straightforward, with the factual sound of someone familiar with the various
places of Syria”

Feltrinelli acquired Italian rights to Douaihy’s Chased away.