Occupations, Professions and Hobbies

Meryem Alaoui (?, Morocco) – La verité sort de la bouche du cheval (2018, English trans. Straight from the Horse’s…

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

Injī Aflātūn (1924 – 1989, Egypt) – Mudhakkirat Injī Aflātūn (‘Inji Aflatun’s memoirs’, 1993). In this memoir, the painter and

Shakīb al-Jābirī (1912 – 1996, Syria) – Wadāʿan yā Afamiya (‘Good-bye Afamia’, 1960), depicts the social tensions aroused by the