The MarginalizedBedouin Desiree / September 10, 2025 ʿAdanīyah Shiblī (1974- Palestine) – Tafṣīl Thānawī (2017, English Trans. Minor Detail, 2020). In 2004, the nameless female narrator from…
Science FictionTime Travel admin / February 8, 2025 Hanādī ʿAbd (1991-, Palestine) – Sāʿat Zaman (‘An hour of time’, 2021). In this science fiction novel, Rūzī, who lost
Science FictionScience Fiction Series admin / February 8, 2025 Ganzeer (Muḥammad Fahmy, ?, Egypt) – The Solar Grid (2016-). Story of this serialized graphic novel is set far into
Science FictionOuter Space admin / February 8, 2025 Muḥammad al-ʿAshry (1967-, Egypt) – Hālat al-Nūr (‘Aura of light’, 2002). This novel portrays a post-oil society in which the
Science FictionOn Earth admin / February 8, 2025 Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Salām al-Baqqāli (1932 – 2010, Morocco) – al-Ṭūfān al-Azraq (‘The blue flood’, 1976). The story of this novel
Speculative FictionDystopia admin / February 8, 2025 Being the converse of utopia, dystopia depicts the seeming impossibility of utopia and the many failures to create it ().
Social Issues and Societal ChangeUnemployment admin / February 7, 2025 Albert Cossery (1913 – 2008, Egypt) – Les Fainéants dans la vallée fertile (1948, English trans. Laziness Fertile Valley, 2013).
Social Issues and Societal ChangePatriarchism admin / February 7, 2025 Yaḥyā al-Ṭāhir ʿAbdallah (1938 – 1989, Egypt) – Al-Ṭawq wa al-Aswūrah (‘The hoop and the bracelets’, 1975). This novel depicts
Social Issues and Societal ChangeOil and the Gulf Region admin / February 7, 2025 Jūkha al-Ḥārthī (1978-, Oman) Sayiddāt al-Qamr (2010, English trans. Celestial Bodies, 2018). Set from the 1940s onwards, this novel depicts
