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Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa is editor at large for Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing about the City, a new journal from Beirut. She is co-author of Syria Spea...

Hisham Bustani

Hisham Bustani is an award-winning Jordanian author of five collections of short fiction and poetry. He is acclaimed for his bold style and unique ...

Najima Hekmat

نجمية حكمت، أديبة أردنية، ولدت في دمشق عام 1921 وتوفيت في عمان في 22 حزيران عام 2006. انتقلت مع عائلتها للعيش في عمّان عندما كانت في الثانية من عمرها....

Al Salwa Publishers

Al Salwa Publishers have been creating original Arabic children’s books since 1996.

Our in-depth experience and close interaction with childr...

Fadwa Tuqan

Fadwa Tuqan (Arabic: فدوى طوقان, romanized: Fadwā Ṭūqān; 1917 – 12 December 2003) was a Palestinian poet known for her representations of resistance t...

Ziad Ahmad Mahafaza

زياد أحمد محافظة (مواليد 31 أكتوبر 1971 في عمّان، الأردن) هو كاتب وروائي أردني. وهو عضو في رابطة الكتّاب الأردنيين، واتحاد الكتاب العرب وعضو منتسب لدى...

Dar Al Shorok

Founded in May 1979, Dar Al Shorok began its activity by focusing on the distribution of high-level Arabic books in all fields of knowledge, and has a...

Amjad Nasser

Amjad Nasser (Arabic: أمجد ناصر), known with the pseudonym of Yahya Numeiri al-Naimat (Arabic: يحيى النميري النعيمات), (1955 – 31 October 2019) was a ...

Jabal Amman Publishers

Jabal Amman Publishers has been a leader in the marketplace and in setting the bar for excellence in knowledge publishing and reading culture.

Taghreed Najjar

Taghreed Najjar (Arabic:تغريد النجار) (born 28 September 1951) is a Palestinian-Jordanian writer and publisher. She is the writer of over 50 Arabic ch...

Amal Ghandour

Amal Ghandour is a Lebanese-Jordanian author and blogger (Th...

Al-Hayya

Al Hayya is a magazine that publishes literary and visual content on the works, interests and strife of women, bilingually...

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

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

Fadia Faqir

Fadia Faqir (Arabic: فادية الفقير) is a Jordanian British author and academician, involved in human rights issues. She was born in Amman, Jordan, and ...

Hashem Ghareibeh

Hashem Bdeiwi Gharaibeh is a contemporary Jordanian author born in 1951 in the Northern Jordanian village of Hawara. Professional life Hashem Ghara...

Leila Farsakh

Leila Farsakh (Arabic: ليلى فرسخ) (born 1967) is a Palestinian political economist who was born in Jordan and is a Professor of Political Science at U...

Kayfa ta

Kayfa ta is a publishing initiative that uses the popular form of how-to manuals (how=kayfa, to=ta) to respond to some of today’s perceived needs; ...

Joseph Massad

Joseph Andoni Massad (Arabic: جوزيف مسعد; born 1963) is a Jordanian academic specializing in Middle Eastern studies, who serves as Professor of Modern...

Rowayat

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

Mira Mattar

Mira Mattar writes fiction and poetry. Her novel, Yes, I Am A Destroyer was published in 2020 by Ma Bibliothèque and her chapboo...

Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa is editor at large for Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing about the City, a new journal from Beirut. She is co-author of Syria Spea...

Hisham Bustani

Hisham Bustani is an award-winning Jordanian author of five collections of short fiction and poetry. He is acclaimed for his bold style and unique ...