Mustafa Khalifa

About The Author

Mustafa Khalifa is a Syrian novelist living in exile. Besides writing fiction, he is an eloquent and insightful political commentator on the situation in his native country. Paul Starkey won the 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his translation of Youssef Rakha’s novel The Book of the Sultan's Seal.

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Books by Mustafa Khalifa

The Shell

Memoirs of a Hidden Observer

By Mustafa Khalifa

Translated by Paul Starkey

The work of a modern-day Sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the Syrian regime.

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