Jailed Palestinian author Basim Khandaqji won the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) on Sunday, announced in a ceremony in Abu Dhabi. The award was presented for his novel titled A Mask, the Colour of the Sky and was accepted by Rana Idriss, owner of the book’s Lebanon-based publisher Dar Al-Adab. Khandaqji’s book is based on the story of a blue identity card that Nur, an archaeologist living in a refugee camp in Ramallah, finds in the pocket of an old coat belonging to an Israeli. Nur then pretends to be Israeli to gain access to excavation sites in the occupied West Ba…