On the 30th of August 2006 Naǧīb Maḥfūẓ died-a legend and symbol of modern Arabic literature, so far the only Noble Prize winner (1988) in that field. For decades he had enriched literature with new novels, short stories ...

Świat arabski jest żywiołowy, jego mieszkańcy nie żałują gestów, ruchów i mimiki, przy pomocy których zwracają się nieustannie do otoczenia i rozmówców, dając upust emocjom. To zachowanie wynika z postawy ...

Bedouins in headscarves, men in jeans and suits, they all speak one Arabic language and search for their place in the world, uncertainly, bravely, with hope. This is a picture that comes up from the modern Arab prose that ...

The story I am introducing here is As-Sā’iḥāt al-ǧamīlāt wa-al-Ḥāǧǧ (The beautiful female tourists and the Ḥāǧǧ), chosen from Al-Miṣrāṭī’s Al-Qird fī al-maṭār collection of stories. The reason behind my choice of this ...

Kuwaiti literature is very young and therefore the authors are also mostly young, only beginning their literary careers. Among these authors particularly intersting are: Laylā al-‘Uṯmān, Ṯurayyā al-Baqṣamī, Sulaymān aš-Šaṭṭī, ...

In his writings, ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān Munīf introduces the reader right into the middle of the Arab desert, which he portrays with passion and mastery, and he is lavish in giving us the expressive pictures of everyday toil and ...

Muḥammad al-Murr, a contemporary writer of the United Arab Emirates, was born in Dubayy, in 1954, where he grew up and completed the Secondary School. In the seventies he left for the United States where he studied at the ...

Arabic drama as a collection of written texts belongs to the so-called “new” Arabic literature, which has been developing since the 19th century. Prior to this date, in the period of Arabic classical literature, only few ...

La littérature francophone du Maghreb, telle qu’elle se présente aujourd’hui, a fait son apparition en Afrique du Nord autour des années cinquante du XXe siècle en tant que fruit d’une greffe: celle de la langue française ...

According to Bouthaina Shaaban, professor of literature at Damascus University, the story of Arab women novelists reflects, in many ways, the story of most women in different disciplines. It is the story of abundant ...