In the Spider's Room

Muhammad Abdelnabi

Translated by Jonathan Wright earliest edition we have, 2017 Hoopoe, 2018 257 pages

"Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo's Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven-month nightmare as he was swept up, along with fifty other men, in the infamous Queen Boat affair that targeted Egypt's gay community. Finally free, but traumatized into speechlessness, Hani writes down the even...

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Jonathan Wright 1 printing we hold · 2018 · Hoopoe

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In the Spider's Room edition · 2018 · Hoopoe · 257 pages · 9789774168758
في غرفة العنكبوت paperback · 2017 · العين · 348 pages · 9789774903847

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