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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...

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 ...

Rowayat

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rahaf Mohammed

Rahaf Mohammed (formerly Rahaf Mohammed Mutlaq al-Qunun Al-Shammari; Arabic: رهف محمد مطلق القنون الشمري; born 11 March 2000) is a Saudi author who wa...

Fadia Basrawi

Fadia, author of

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

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

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...

Madawi al-Rasheed

Madawi al-Rasheed, (Arabic: مضاوي الرشيد; born (1962-10-00)October 1962) is a British citizen of Saudi origin and a professor of social anthropology....

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...

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...

Omaima Al-Khamis

Umaima Abdullah al-Khamis (Arabic:أميمة الخميس) (born 1966) is a Saudi Arabian writer and novelist. She was born in Riyadh and studied Arabic literatu...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 Sh...

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...

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...