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Raja'a Alem

Raja'a Alem (Arabic: رجاء عالم) (born in 1970) is a Saudi Arabian novelist from Mecca/Hejaz. Life Alem was born in Mecca. She received her BA in En...

Ahmad Al-Wasel

أحمد الواصل أديب وناقد سعودي ولد في الرياض في 23 مارس 1976م. يكتب زاوية (صبا) عن الغناء العربي في جريدة (الرياض)، وصدرت له العديد الروايات والمجموعات ...

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...

Lamia bint Majid Al Saud

Lamia bint Majid Al Saud (Arabic: لمياء بنت ماجد آل سعود) is a Saudi royal and philanthropist who is Secretary General of Alwaleed Philanthropies and ...

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

Samia al-Amoudi

Samia al-Amoudi (Arabic: ساميه العمودي) is a Saudi Arabian obstetrician and gynecologist, Healthcare activist and professor. She is the head of the S...

Rowayat

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

Manal al-Sharif

Manal al-Sharif (Arabic: منال الشريف; born 25 April 1979) is a Saudi women's rights activist who helped start a right to drive campaign in 2011. Wajeh...

Abdullah Thabit

Abdullah Thabit (Arabic: عبد الله ثابت, born 1973) is a Saudi Arabian poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in the city of Abha in the southern p...

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...

Dalene Matthee

Dalene Matthee (13 October 1938 – 20 February 2005) was a South African author best known for her four "Forest Novels", written in and around the Knys...

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

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

Mauzoun

Mauzoun is a writing studio and publishing house that serves brands and authors worldwide. Our name aptly means “poetic balance” in Arabic, a meani...

Rania Al-Baz

Rania al-Baz (Arabic: رانيا الباز) is a Saudi Arabian television presenter, well known as the host of the programme "The Kingdom this Morning". She ca...

Ahmed Abodehman

Ahmed Abodehman was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and was known since youth as the ‘bard’ of his village; he has lived in Paris since 1982 and is a ...

Fadia Basrawi

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Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi

Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi (Arabic: غازي بن عبدالرحمن القصيبي; 3 March 1940 – 15 August 2010) was a Saudi politician, diplomat, technocrat, poet, a...

Badryah El-Bishr

Badriah Al-Beshr (Arabic: بدرية البشر, born 1967 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) is a Saudi Arabian writer and novelist. She was born in Riyadh and obtained ...

Christiaan Barnard

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

Raja'a Alem

Raja'a Alem (Arabic: رجاء عالم) (born in 1970) is a Saudi Arabian novelist from Mecca/Hejaz. Life Alem was born in Mecca. She received her BA in En...