PalestineGaza admin / January 10, 2025 Ḥayāh Mayitāh – Qiṣaṣ min Ghazah (2013, English trans. The Book of Gaza, 2014), edited by ʿĀṭif Abū Sayf (written…
OmanMuscat admin / January 10, 2025 Hudā Ḥamad (1981-, Oman) – Sindarīlā Musqaṭ (‘Muskat’s Cinderella’, 2016) This novel focusses on a group of eight women living
MoroccoMarrakesh admin / January 10, 2025 Yāsīn ʿAdnān (1970-, Morocco) – Hūt Mārūk (2016, English trans. Hot Maroc, 2021). Set in Marrakesh, this comic novel paints
MauritaniaNouakchott admin / January 10, 2025 Al-Shaykh Bin Aḥmadū (?, Mauritania) – Awda al-Zirāf (‘Return of the giraffe’, 2008) focusses on urbanisation and life in Mauritanian
LibyaTripoli admin / January 10, 2025 Kemal Ben Hameda’s (1954-, Libya) – La compagnie des Tripolitains (2011, English trans. Under the Tripoli Sky, 2014). Written in
LebanonBeirut admin / January 10, 2025 Being a safe haven for Arab intellectuals, with the outbreak of Civil War in Lebanon, Beirut became a recurrent, if
KuwaitKuwait admin / January 10, 2025 Saʿūd al-Sanʿūsī (1981-, Kuwait) – Firān Ummī Ḥiṣṣah (2015, English trans. Mama Hissa’s Mice, 2019). Kuwait in the year 2020
JordanAmman admin / January 10, 2025 Laylā al-Aṭrash (?, Palestine / Jordan) – Raghbāt… Dhāk al-Kharīf (‘Desires… That fall’, 2009). This novel focusses on a group
1948 PalestineJerusalem admin / January 10, 2025 Laylā al-Aṭrash (1948-, Palestine / Jordan) – Tarānīm al-Ghawāyah (‘Hymns of temptation’, 2014). The documentary film producer Rāwiyah Abū Najmah
