Minorities

Rabīʿah Jalṭī (1964-, Algeria) – Nādī al-Ṣanawbar (‘Pine club’, 2016). When celebrating her divorce, an Algerian Tuareg woman named ʿAthrā…

See also 1970 Aswan Dam   Idrīss ʿAlī (1940 – 2010, Egypt) – Dunqlā: Riwāyah Nūbiyyah (1993, English trans. A

Hudā Barakāt (1952-, Lebanon) – Ḥārath al-Miyāh (1998, English Trans. The Tiller of Waters, 2004). Set in a destroyed Beirut

For literature on Jewish minorities in the Arab-majority world, see R: Religion and Sectarianism: Judaism and Arab-Jew relationships.

Fādi ʿAzzām (1973-, Syria) – Sarmadah (2011, English trans. Sarmada, 2012). This novel traces the lives of three Druze women

Bushrā Khalfān (1969-, Oman) – Dilshād, Sīrah al-Jūʿa wa al-Shibaʿa (‘Dilshad: biography of hunger and satiety’, 2021). This historical fiction

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Laylā Qaṣrānī (1967-, Iraq) – Al-Ṭuyūr al-ʿAmyāʾ (‘The blind birds’, 2016). The story of this novel takes place in the