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…
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
Social Issues and Societal ChangeTribes and Ethnicity admin / February 7, 2025 Ghālib Halasā’s (1932 – 1989, Jordan) short story ‘al-Bashʿa’, which can be found in the collection Wadīʿa wa al-Qadīsah Mīlādah
The MarginalizedSlavery admin / February 7, 2025 See also H: Historical Novels: Historical Novels on Slavery Rāshid ʿabd al-Naʿīmī (1937-, UAE) – Shāhindah (‘Shahinda’, 1976). Often seen
The MarginalizedBidūn admin / February 7, 2025 The ‘Bidūn’ is a social class mainly in Kuwait, but also in other Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
The MarginalizedHomeless admin / February 7, 2025 Zaynab Balīl (1947-, Sudan) – Nabāt al-Ṣabbār (‘The cactus plant’, 2011). This novel depicts the troubles of a group of
The MarginalizedAkhdām admin / February 7, 2025 Akhdām (meaning ‘servants’) are a socially marginalized minority group of Yemeni society. They are Arabic-speaking Muslims like many other Yemenis
