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Ibtisam Barakat won the prize for children’s literature at the 2020 Shekh Zayed Book Award
Ibtisam Barakat won the prize for children’s literature at the 2020 Shekh Zayed Book Award
Sheikh Zayed Book Award: Palestinian poet Salma Khadra Jayyusi among 2020 winners
The prize's nine total winners hail from six countries: the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Iraq, Tunisia and Palestine
Ashleigh Stewart
15 April, 2020