1970 - 19801970 Hafez al-Asad Syria admin / March 2, 2025 Khālid Khalīfah (1963 – 2023, Syria) – La Sakākīn fī Maṭābikh Hadhahi al-Madīnah (2013, English trans. No Knives in the…
1960 – 19701969 Libyan revolution – Muammar Qaddafi seizes power admin / February 16, 2025 Fāṭimah Sālim al-Ḥāji (?, Libya) – Ṣarākh al-Ṭābiq al-Suflī (‘Scream of the bottom floor’, 2015). This novel takes place during
1960 – 19701968 Student revolution in Lebanon admin / February 16, 2025 Tawfīq Yūsuf ʿAwwād (1911 – 1989, Lebanon) – Ṭawāḥīn Bayrūt (1972, English trans. Death in Beirut, 1976). When Tamīmah, a
1960 – 19701968 Baʿthist coup in Iraq admin / February 16, 2025 When the Baʿthist party came to power they imposed deportation on those who refused to join its ranks. Many of
1960 – 19701967 – 1968 Siege of Sanaa admin / February 16, 2025 Nādiyyah al-Kawkabānī (1968-, Yemen) – Ṣanʿāʾī (‘My Sanaa’, 2013). The main character in this novel is the city of Sanaa.
1967 al-NaksahSyria admin / February 16, 2025 Mamdūḥ ʿAdwān (1941 – 2004, Syria) – al-Abtar (‘Flawed’, 1970) in which the sixty-year-old hero, Idrīs, resists Israeli occupation of
1967 al-NaksahSaudi Arabia admin / February 16, 2025 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf (1933 – 2004, Jordan / Saudi Arabia) – Ḥayna Taraknā al-Jisr (‘When we abandoned the bridge’, 1976).
1967 al-NaksahPalestine admin / February 16, 2025 Muʿīn Basīsū (1927 – 1984, Palestine) in his play Shamshūn wa Dalīlah (‘Samson and Delilah’, 1971) depicts the tragedy of
1967 al-NaksahLebanon admin / February 16, 2025 Ḥalīm Barakāt (1936-, Syria) – Sittat Ayyām (1961, English trans. Six Days, 1990) and ʿAwdat al-Taʾirila al-Bahr (1969, English trans.
