{"id":138797,"date":"2024-04-17T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caus.org.lb\/?p=138797"},"modified":"2024-04-17T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:38:13","slug":"the-italian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caus.org.lb\/en\/the-italian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Italian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: Shukri Al-Mabkhout<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book review by: Chamseddine Mnasri<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published by: Al-Tanweer, Beirut<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Year of publication: 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN: 9789938886481<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shukri Al-Mabkhout\u2019s first novel The Italian is a political narrative par excellence. A linguist by profession, Al-Mabkhout ventures into Tunisian contemporary political history via the Marxist militant Abdennaser (nicknamed \u201cthe Italian\u201d), a controversial character that won him the 2015 Booker Prize for Arabic Literature. 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