Shady Lewis, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose writing centres on cultural and political intersections within and beyond the Arab world. His novel ”On the Greenwich Line”  first published in Arabic in 2020 traces the absurdities of racism, austerity, and bureaucracy in contemporary England. The English translation by Katherine Halls was published in 2025 and won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2026
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