{"id":203727,"date":"2026-01-09T04:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203727"},"modified":"2026-01-09T04:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:47:41","slug":"top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203727","title":{"rendered":"Top National Book Awards Go to Writing About the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabih Alameddine\u2019s \u201cThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)\u201d won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad\u2019s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/19\/books\/review\/omar-el-akkad-rabih-alameddine-national-book-awards.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabih Alameddine\u2019s \u201cThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)\u201d won in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east.jpg",1800,1800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east-768x768.jpg",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east-1024x1024.jpg",640,640,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east-1536x1536.jpg",1536,1536,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east.jpg",1800,1800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203727-top-national-book-awards-go-to-writing-about-the-middle-east-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}