4499 Magazine of Modern Arab Literature

Excerpts from the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Shortlist 2014

PLUS: Kadhim Jihad Hassan

Mona Kareem Fouad El -Auwad,

Kamal Ayadi

Guest Literature: Poet Stephen Watts

A Cornucopia of Short Stories

Ahmed Bouzfour

Salima Salih Zakaria Tamer Ibrahim Farghali Ahmed Alrahbi Said al-Kafrawi

Anis Arafai Basma El-Khatib Mahmoud Saeed Nasrin Trabulsi Wajdi al-Ahdal

Jokha al-Harthi Mahmoud al-Bayaty

Ahmed Saadawi Hassouna Mosbahi

Alia al-Ismaily Hisham Bustani

Taleb Alrefai Huzama Habayeb

Ibrahim Aslan Mahmoud Shukair