Psychological Disorders

Layla al-Ammar (?, Kuwait) – The Pact We Made (2019). This debut novel centres the young Kuwaiti woman Dahlia, who…

Jalāl Barjas (1970-, Jordan) – Dafātir al-Qarrāq (2020, English trans. The Bookseller’s Notebooks, 2022). This novel, which won the 14th

Wāsīnī al-Arʿaj (1954-, Algeria) – May: Layālī Iyzīs Kūbiyyā (‘May: Nights of the Isis Copia’ 2018). This novel is based

ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿAlūllah’s (1939 – 1994, Algeria) play Ḥumq Salīm (‘Salim’s Madness’, 1972). Based on Gogol’s short story ‘Diary of

ʿAlī ʿAṭṭā (?, Egypt) – Ḥāffah al-Kawthar (‘The edge of al-Kawthar’, 2017). The novel describes the life of news agency