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The result was keep. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 22:44, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable novel. Can't find any reliable sources. Article's provided "quotes" as reviews aren't sourced. Fails WP:NBOOKS. Mikeblas (talk) 14:15, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:59, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:59, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Not Notable. Sinai Horus ^〉〉〉 00:01, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: It looks like all of the coverage for this book would be in Arabic, so I'm going to ask around to see if anyone can help with searching for sources. I can do some searching with Google Translate, but it's understandably flawed. I can find some mention of it here and there with sources like this one, but GT isn't really helping overly much. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:30, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Barring any Arabic fluent editors coming in and providing sources, I'd argue that if this closes as a redirect it should redirect with history. I figure that if we leave the history intact, we can always un-redirect this if Arabic language sources are found after the AfD closes. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:33, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - Tokyogirl79, it appear that the notability can mostly be confirmed by Arabic sources. Youm7 [1] and Al Bayan [2] discussed the book, and so did As-Safir [3] but to a lesser extent. It was also mentioned/described by other Arab publishers, such as Al-Ahram [4] [5] [6] [7] [8], Sky News Arabia [9], Al Arabiya [10], ِAl Akhbar [11], the English language Egypt Independent [12] and many others. Fitzcarmalan (talk) 10:56, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jenks24 (talk) 15:03, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• The sources provided by Fitzcarmalan look legit, so I support keeping the article. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:22, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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