Psychological DisordersTrauma admin / January 17, 2025 Layla al-Ammar (?, Kuwait) – The Pact We Made (2019). This debut novel centres the young Kuwaiti woman Dahlia, who…
Psychological DisordersSchizophrenia admin / January 17, 2025 Jalāl Barjas (1970-, Jordan) – Dafātir al-Qarrāq (2020, English trans. The Bookseller’s Notebooks, 2022). This novel, which won the 14th
Psychological DisordersPsychiatric hospitals admin / January 17, 2025 Wāsīnī al-Arʿaj (1954-, Algeria) – May: Layālī Iyzīs Kūbiyyā (‘May: Nights of the Isis Copia’ 2018). This novel is based
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,
