1970 – 1980

Yūsuf Fāḍil (1949-, Morocco) – Qiṭṭ Abyaḍ Jamīl Yusīr Maʿī (2011, English trans. A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me,

Yūsuf al-Qaʿīd (1944-, Egypt) – Yaḥduth fī Miṣr al-Āna (‘It’s happening in Egypt now’, 1977). This novel is set against

Mubārak Rabīʿ (1935-, Morocco) – Rifqat al-Silāḥ… wa al-Qamar (‘Comrades in arms… and the moon’, 1976). This novel, set in

ʿAzīz Binebine (1946-, Morocco) – Tazmamort récit: dix-huit ans dans le bagne de Hassan II (2009, English trans. 18 Years

ʿAbdallah Khalīfah (1948-, Bahrain) – al-Yanābīʿa (‘Springs’, 2013). Covering the period from the British colonisation until Bahraini independence, al-Yanābīʿa tells

Following the years after the 1973 October War (Yom Kippur War) with Israel, the new Egyptian President Anwar Sādāt introduced

An estimated 50,000-70,000 Egyptian Nubians were displaced from forty-four villages along the Nile to the designated resettlement site known as

Jamāl Abu Ghaydā (1966-, Jordan) – Khābiyyat al-Ḥanīn (‘Vessels of nostalgia’, 2016). This novel describes two periods in Jordan’s history: