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 ...

Many authors tried to explore the magic of the desert, but it was only the Libyan Ibrāhīm al-Kawnī who was able to introduce it to the literature on a larger scale. He was born in 1948, and began publishing in the 1970’s. ...

The beginnings of Omani women’s literary work go back to the previous century, when the Sultan of Oman and Zanzibar’s daughter Sayyida Sālma Bint Sa‘īd started to write her memoirs, which were published in Berlin in 1886 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The purpose of this paper is to shed some new light on the community of Abbasid court companions, their character and their writings. It seems that the study of that problem has been slightly neglected1, though their ...