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Podcast: BULAQ | ุจููุงู
Episode: Murder, They Wrote
Description: Our guest this week was once told there were no Algerian crime novels. She begs to differ. We discuss the many examples of the genre and its evolution in Algeria, Morocco and Egypt.ย Show Notes:Nadia Ghanem regularly covers Algerian and Moroccan literature -- particularly crime fiction -- for ArabLit. She has a wonderful crime-lit overview, "The Story of 50 Years of Algerian Crime Fiction in 60+ Books," and also a short translation of a work by Chawki Amari, โMurder at Algiers' Book Fair'.A few of Nadia's favorite Algerian crime novels: Adel s'emmele by Sal...