- Ḥussayn al-Maḥrūs (?, Bahrain) – Ḥawwām (‘Doves’, 2008). This novel, which is set in the 1980s, centres the world of ‘pigeon breeders’ in Bahrain. Its hero, pigeon breeder Zakariyyā, to whom the arts of love and passion are unknown, believes that the behaviour of women is similar to that of pigeons and approaches them as such (reference). Therefore, he believes that Miryām, his brother’s wife who he loves, suffers from hysteria. The novel also reflects on the political turmoil of 1980’s Bahrain, among others by Zakariyyā’s arrest on his alleged oppositional political activities (see also L: Love, Lust, and Relationships, Lust and Sex: Female Sexuality).
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- Niḍāl Burqān. 2009. “Tuqaddim Ṣūrah Ukhrā lil-Mujtamʿa al-Baḥrayniyyah – Riwāyyah ‘Ḥawwām’ li-Ḥussayn al-Maḥrūs.” www.addustour.com, 18 September 2009, https://www.addustour.com/articles/475836 (last accessed 5 August 2020)