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LONDON: At first, readers of “In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat,” a book by Egyptian poet, translator and academic Iman Mersal, may take it as a straightforward biography. But as the book unfolds, it reveals its multiple layers, asking questions about the notion of archiving, women’s writing, and mental illness. Al-Zayyat committed suicide in 1963 after battling depression and struggling to get her first and only novel, “Love and Silence,” published. That did eventually happen, but only four years after her death. “I started with a very simple question about ‘Love and Silence,’” Mersal, who first read Al-Zayyat’s book in 1993, tells Arab News. “Who wrote it? Who is Enayat Al-Zayyat? And why was the novel excluded from the canon of Arabic literature? This was the simple question behind my book. ....
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award Streams Its 2021 Winners Ceremony ‘Light in a global darkness’: The award’s secretary-general Dr. Ali Bin Tamim says the program now has honored a total 100 laureates. Dr. Ali Bin Tamim, Sheikh Zayed Book Award secretary-general and Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre chair, speaks during the Zayed Award ceremony, seen on the Main Stage at Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. Image: ADIBF Three 2021 Winners, Four 2020 Winners in Attendance As the 30th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair settled into its first full day, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award held its 2021 ceremony in a presentation delivered both on the main stage in the soaring Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center and in the week-long show’s ambitious digital streaming program. ....