Author name: admin

The coup in 1958 by the Iraqi Free Officers led to the end of the rule of prime minister Nūrī…

Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946 – 2014, Tunisia) – Talismano (1979, English trans. Talismano, 2011). This novel portrays the narrator’s imaginary return

ʿAbdallāh al-ʿArwī (1933-, Morocco) – al-Ghurbah (‘Exile’, 1971) in which the author presents a picture of cultural fragmentation in post-independence

Malikah al-Dār Muḥammad ʿAbdallah (1920 – 1969, Sudan) – al-Farāgh al-ʿArīdah (‘The emptiness of the wide hollowness, ’1970). Published posthumously,

The Suez Crisis, also called the Second Arab Israeli War and the Tripartite Aggression, was an invasion of Israel and

Djamal Amrani (1935 – 2005, Algeria) – Le Témoin (‘The witness’, 1960). This literary work is an autobiographical account of

See also 1952 Revolution in Egypt   ʿAlāʾ al-Aswānī (1957-, Egypt) – ʿImārat Yaʿqūbiyān (2002, English trans. The Yacoubian Building,

Bushrā Khalfān (1969-, Oman) – Al-Bāgh (‘The aggressor’, 2016). Tells the story of a brother and a sister, Rashīd and

Although this term was first used around 1950 as a translation from Jean-Paul Sartre’s engagement, it came into prominence in