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Authors, books, publishers, magazines, and reading lists from and about The Gulf
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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...
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 ...
Rowayat
In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on E...
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...
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...
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, and ALQ Books are a translator-centered collective that produces a website, quarterly magazine...
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...
Huda Hamed
Huda Hamed (Arabic: هدى حمد) is an Omani writer and journalist born in 1981. She has published five collections of short stories and four novels. In 2...
All Prints Distributors & Publishers
All Prints Distributors & Publishers is one of the leading publishing houses in the entire Arab world and the entire Middle East. Operating from our 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...
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 ...
Ali al-Muqri
Ali al-Muqri (Arabic: علي المقري) (born in Taiz) is a Yemeni novelist and writer. Two of his novels - Black Taste, Black Odour and The Handsome Jew -...
Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh
Abdul Aziz Al-Maqaleh (Arabic: عبد العزيز المقالح; 1937 – 28 November 2022) was a Yemeni poet and writer. Primarily writing in free verse, Al-Maqaleh ...
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...
Nujoom Alghanem
Nujoom Alghanem (Arabic: نجوم الغانم) (born 24 October 1962) is an Emirati poet, artist and film director. She has published eight poetry collections ...
Badria al-Badri
بدرية البدري شاعرة وروائية من سلطنة عمان. لها عدد من الإصدارات في الرواية والشعر وأدب الطفل. حازت جوائز عدّة منها «جائزة الإبداع الثقافي» لعام 2019 عن...
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing is a partnership of Qatar Foundation and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Its focus is on publishing books of excelle...
Saif al-Rahbi
Saif al-Rahbi (born 1956) is an Omani poet, essayist and writer. He was born in Oman in a village called Suroor. In 1970, while he was still in his ea...
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.
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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...
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 ...
