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Jan 2002
24m 11s

Bahaa Taher

Bbc World Service
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Harriett Gilbert talks to the Egyptian writer, Bahaa Taher an Egyptian novelist who writes in Arabic and is the winner of the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction, awarded in 2008. 
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