Shahad Al Rawi: Over the Republic Bridge

Shahad Al Rawi: Over the Republic Bridge

Date/Time: Sunday 13 February 2022 18:00-19:00

Venue: Al Joud Ballroom 3, Hilton, Al Habtoor City

Language: Arabic

Session No: 156 

Following her international acclaimed her first novel The Baghdad Clock, which was translated into a number of languages, Shahad Al Rawi returns to her heroines and the Baghdad that we love in Over the Republic Bridge. She explores the hope, friendships and true love of three generations as their destinies intersect and they navigate between their present lives and the nostalgia for a past that never leaves them.

Dr Shahad Al Rawi is an Iraqi writer whose first novel won the First Book Award at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2018. The bestselling Over the Republic Bridge, was published in 2020.
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