- Hanādī ʿAbd (1991-, Palestine) – Sāʿat Zaman (‘An hour of time’, 2021). In this science fiction novel, Rūzī, who lost her mother when she was three years old and who was raised by her father, travels back 10 years in time through a machine her genius friend developed. With her friends help, she sets up direct contact between the two time zones through radio waves.
- Mūsā Walid Ibindū (1956-, Mauritania) – Barzakh / Madīnah al-Riyāḥ (‘Barzakh’, 1994 / ‘Wind city’, 1996). This novel starts with future archaeologists discovering the corpse of Fārā in a mountain top and figuring out how to read his thoughts. They discover that Fārā was a time traveler and lived between 1034 and 2055. The novel tells his story from being bought by slave merchants as a child, to his presence in the future. It encompasses three periods: the period of trans-Saharan slave trade, French conquests, and a future period when earth is nothing more than a nuclear garbage bin for the rest of the solar system’s planets. The author first wrote the French version of this novel and translated to Arabic himself. He had a similar bi-lingual process with his novel Al-Ḥubb al-Mustaḥīl in the section ‘On Earth’ above.
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