Psychological DisordersHallucination and Deliriums admin / January 17, 2025 ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿAlūllah’s (1939 – 1994, Algeria) play Ḥumq Salīm (‘Salim’s Madness’, 1972). Based on Gogol’s short story ‘Diary of…
Psychological DisordersDepression admin / January 17, 2025 ʿAlī ʿAṭṭā (?, Egypt) – Ḥāffah al-Kawthar (‘The edge of al-Kawthar’, 2017). The novel describes the life of news agency
Physical DisabilitiesParalysis admin / January 17, 2025 Leila Aboulela (1964-, Sudan) – Lyrics Alley (2010). This novel is inspired by the life of Sudanese poet Hassan Awad
Physical DisabilitiesImpotence and Castration admin / January 17, 2025 Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī (1945 – 2015, Egypt) – Waqāʾiʿ Ḥārat al-Zaʿfarānī (1979, English trans. The Zafarani Files, 2008). This novel portrays
Physical DisabilitiesBlindness admin / January 17, 2025 Ghāʾib Ṭuʿmah Farmān’s (1927 – 1995, Iraq) short story ‘ʿAmmī ʿAbburnī’ (‘Please sir, help me cross the street’). Through the
Physical DisabilitiesDisabled persons admin / January 17, 2025 Yūsuf Idrīs’ (1927 – 1991, Egypt) short story ‘Aḥmad al-Majlis al-Baladī’ (‘Ahmed of the Local Council’) focusses on Aḥmad al-ʿUqlah,
IllnessesTuberculosis admin / January 11, 2025 Ahmed Bouanani (1938 – 2011, Morocco) – L’Hȏpital (1990, English trans. The Hospital, 2018). The unknown narrator of this novel
IllnessesHeart diseases admin / January 11, 2025 Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī (1945 – 2015, Egypt) – al-Khuṭaṭ al-Fāṣilah: Yawmiyāt al-Qalb al-Maftūḥ (‘al-Ghīṭānī manuscripts: diaries of an open heart’, 1980).
IllnessesEbola admin / January 11, 2025 Amīr Tāj al-Sir (1960-, Sudan) – Iybūlā 76 (2012, English trans. Ebola 76, 2015). This short novel is a fictional
