Nukat for the gunmen of Mazen Maarouf competed in the "Edinburgh Book Festival"

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The group is competing with the Palestinian writer Mazen Marouf on the long list of the Edinburgh Book Fair in Scotland.

The anthology in the English edition of the London-based Granta Publishing House, translated by Jonathan Wright, has reached the long list of the Man Booker International Prize, won by the novel "Moon Women" by Omani writer Joukhha Al-Harithi.

And "Jokes for the Militants" published by the publishing house of Riad Al Rayes for Books and Publishing – Beirut, the first collection of the famous Mazn, after two poetry books, "Angel on a Rope" and "The camera does not pick up the birds." So he moves from poetry to The narration in fourteen short stories written in Iceland, and the stories in the framework of Fantazzi in constant contact with reality, and draws from the personalities known well-known during his stay as a Palestinian refugee in Beirut, and rearranged the image and concerns existential and human to stand out as if locked in a long paradox mixed pain in Nadra .

Mazen Maarouf, with his group "Nicks for the Gunners", was able to win the award for the story in Kuwait in 2016.

It is also possible to say that the idea of ​​the narrative sequence is quite clear and achievable, not in separate stories such as "jokes for the gunmen." But in the whole group, they complement one way or the other. There is a thin line that connects everything, Her children suffer from everything inside her. The adults who tell them about Mazen are known as their children, who do not know how to escape from them. They remain trapped in their memories, no matter how many years have passed.