{"id":268406,"date":"2009-02-09T14:38:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T14:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/02\/09\/2009-zayed-book-award-in-literature\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:23","slug":"2009-zayed-book-award-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/02\/09\/2009-zayed-book-award-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Zayed Book Award in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, it was announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zayedaward.com\/en\/news2d_en.aspx?nid=333\">Jamal Al Ghitani of Egypt won the Zayed Book Award in Literature<\/a> for the sixth volume of <em>Dafater Al-Tadween<\/em>, a historical novel that &#8220;ventures the ancient history of Egypt in effort to revive the myths and stories through the use of sufistic parables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I believe the actual award ceremony takes place during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adbookfair.com\/cms\/\">Abu Dhabi International Book Fair,<\/a> which I&#8217;ll be attending next month . . .<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/157.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, it was announced that Jamal Al Ghitani of Egypt won the Zayed Book Award in Literature for the sixth volume of Dafater Al-Tadween, a historical novel that &#8220;ventures the ancient history of Egypt in effort to revive the myths and stories through the use of sufistic parables.&#8221; I believe the actual award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[19766,1836,19756],"class_list":["post-268406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-abu-dhabi-book-fair","tag-cwp","tag-zayed-book-award"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354556,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268406\/revisions\/354556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}