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Saif al-Rahbi

Saif al-Rahbi

Saif al-Rahbi (born 1956) is an Omani poet, essayist and writer. He was born in Oman in a village called Suroor. In 1970, while he was still in his ea...
Abdullah Thabit

Abdullah Thabit

Abdullah Thabit (Arabic: ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู„ู‡ ุซุงุจุช, born 1973) is a Saudi Arabian poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in the city of Abha in the southern p...
Rowayat

Rowayat

In 2012, Rowayatย ุฑูˆุงูŠุงุช launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on E...

Nujoom Alghanem

Nujoom Alghanem

Nujoom Alghanem (Arabic: ู†ุฌูˆู… ุงู„ุบุงู†ู…) (born 24 October 1962) is an Emirati poet, artist and film director. She has published eight poetry collections ...
Huda Hamed

Huda Hamed

Huda Hamed (Arabic: ู‡ุฏู‰ ุญู…ุฏ) is an Omani writer and journalist born in 1981. She has published five collections of short stories and four novels. In 2...
Mohammed Hasan Alwan

Mohammed Hasan Alwan

Mohammed Hasan Alwan (born 27 August 1979) is a Saudi Arabian novelist. He was born in Riyadh and studied Computer Information Systems at King Saud Un...
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing is a partnership of Qatar Foundation and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Its focus is on publishing books of excelle...
Raja'a Alem

Raja'a Alem

Raja'a Alem (Arabic: ุฑุฌุงุก ุนุงู„ู…) (born in 1970) is a Saudi Arabian novelist from Mecca/Hejaz. Life Alem was born in Mecca. She received her BA in En...
Ahmed Abodehman

Ahmed Abodehman

Ahmed Abodehman was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and was known since youth as the โ€˜bardโ€™ of his village; he has lived in Paris since 1982 and is a ...
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, and ALQ Books are a translator-centered collective that produces a website, quarterly magazine...

Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh

Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh

Abdul Aziz Al-Maqaleh (Arabic: ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ุนุฒูŠุฒ ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงู„ุญ; 1937 โ€“ 28 November 2022) was a Yemeni poet and writer. Primarily writing in free verse, Al-Maqaleh ...
Yahya Amqassim

Yahya Amqassim

Yahya Amqassim (born 1971) is a Saudi Arabian writer. A graduate of King Saud University, he is currently a foreign diplomat and has served in the Sau...
All Prints Distributors & Publishers

All Prints Distributors & Publishers

All Prints Distributors & Publishers is one of the leading publishing houses in the entire Arab world and the entire Middle East. Operating from our h...
Mauzoun

Mauzoun

Mauzoun is a writing studio and publishing house that serves brands and authors worldwide. Our name aptly means โ€œpoetic balanceโ€ in Arabic, a meani...

Badria al-Badri

Badria al-Badri

ุจุฏุฑูŠุฉ ุงู„ุจุฏุฑูŠ ุดุงุนุฑุฉ ูˆุฑูˆุงุฆูŠุฉ ู…ู† ุณู„ุทู†ุฉ ุนู…ุงู†. ู„ู‡ุง ุนุฏุฏ ู…ู† ุงู„ุฅุตุฏุงุฑุงุช ููŠ ุงู„ุฑูˆุงูŠุฉ ูˆุงู„ุดุนุฑ ูˆุฃุฏุจ ุงู„ุทูู„. ุญุงุฒุช ุฌูˆุงุฆุฒ ุนุฏู‘ุฉ ู…ู†ู‡ุง ยซุฌุงุฆุฒุฉ ุงู„ุฅุจุฏุงุน ุงู„ุซู‚ุงููŠยป ู„ุนุงู… 2019 ุนู†...
Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 โ€“ 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human h...
Ali al-Muqri

Ali al-Muqri

Ali al-Muqri (Arabic: ุนู„ูŠ ุงู„ู…ู‚ุฑูŠ) (born in Taiz) is a Yemeni novelist and writer. Two of his novels - Black Taste, Black Odour and The Handsome Jew -...
Turki al-Hamad

Turki al-Hamad

Turki al-Hamad is a highly successful author in the Arab world. His novels are controversial throughout the Middle East; he is the target of four fatw...
Abdo Khal

Abdo Khal

Abdo Khal (born 3, August 1962, Al-Mijannah, Jizan, Saudi Arabia) is an Arab writer and winner of the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. ...
Badryah El-Bishr

Badryah El-Bishr

Badriah Al-Beshr (Arabic: ุจุฏุฑูŠุฉ ุงู„ุจุดุฑ, born 1967 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) is a Saudi Arabian writer and novelist. She was born in Riyadh and obtained ...
Saif al-Rahbi

Saif al-Rahbi

Saif al-Rahbi (born 1956) is an Omani poet, essayist and writer. He was born in Oman in a village called Suroor. In 1970, while he was still in his ea...
Abdullah Thabit

Abdullah Thabit

Abdullah Thabit (Arabic: ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู„ู‡ ุซุงุจุช, born 1973) is a Saudi Arabian poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in the city of Abha in the southern p...

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