Atlantic has acquired world English rights to Azazil, the novel that won this year's International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Toby Mundy and Ravi Mirchandani secured the deal to the book by Egyptian ...

The winner of last year’s Arabic Booker, Youssef Ziedan’s Azazil (or Beelzebub in English translation) caused a storm in his native Egypt, particularly among the country’s Christians (or ‘Coptics’).