Hoda Barakat is a Lebanese novelist. She lived most of her early life in Beirut before moving to Paris, where she now resides. She has published six novels, two plays, a book of short stories, and a book of memoirs. Her works are originally written in Arabic and have been translated into English, Hebrew, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Romanian, Dutch, and Greek.
Alia Mamdouh is an Iraqi novelist, author, and journalist living in exile in Paris, France.
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), also known as "the Arabic Booker," is regarded as the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world.
Wajdi al-Ahdal is a Yemeni novelist, short story writer and playwright. Laureate of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2008, is known for his contemporary literary style and sometimes socially critical works, some of which have been censored in Yemen. Until 2019, he has published five novels, four collections of short stories, a play and a film screenplay.
Habib Selmi is a Tunisian novelist and short story writer.
Abbas Beydoun is a Lebanese poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in the village of Sur near Tyre in southern Lebanon. His father was a teacher. Beydoun studied at the Lebanese University in Beirut and the Sorbonne in Paris. He was involved in left-wing politics and spent time in jail as a young man in 1968 and 1982.
Mohamed Salah El Azab is an Egyptian writer and novelist.
Bashir Mufti is an Algerian novelist and writer. He was born in Algiers and started writing in the mid-1980s. He has published a number of novels and short story collections.
Mohammed Hasan Alwan is a Saudi Arabian novelist. He was born in Riyadh and studied Computer Information Systems at King Saud University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 2002. He also obtained an MBA from the University of Portland, Oregon in 2008 and Ph.D from Carleton University, Ottawa in 2016.
Waciny Laredj is an Algerian novelist, short story writer and academic.
Hammour Ziada is a Sudanese writer and journalist, born in Omdurman. He has worked as a civil society and human rights researcher, and currently works as journalist in Cairo. Before, he had been writing for a number of left-wing newspapers in Sudan. Two of his novels were selected for Arabic literary awards and appeared in English translations.
Youssef Rakha is an Egyptian writer. His work explores language and identity in the context of Cairo, and reflects connections with the Arab-Islamic canon and world literature. He has worked in many genres in both Arabic and English, and is known for his essays and poems as well as his novels.
Rasha Adly is an Egyptian writer and art historian. She is the author of seven novels, two of which have been nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Hamed al-Nazir, also spelled Hamid el-Nazir, is a Sudanese journalist and novelist.
Jalal Barjas is a Jordanian literary author and journalist, writing in Arabic. A trained engineer, he worked as a newspaper editor and a journalist and has published in a range of genres, including poetry, short stories, novels, and literary articles.
Mohammed ʽEissa al-Muʼadab is a Tunisian writer. He was born in 1966.
Amira Ghenim is a Tunisian writer and academic. She was born in 1978 in Sousse. She obtained a PhD in linguistics, teaches at Tunis University, and is involved in academic publishing about linguistics and translation both as an editor and a writer. In addition, she has written and published two novels to date:
Sara al-Nams is an Algerian writer and editor. She was born in 1989 in Tiaret. She studied English at Ferhat Abbas University in Sétif. She currently manages the Algerian publishing house Ajniha. She has authored several books:
Azazeel is a novel by Youssef Ziedan, published by "Dar Al-Shorouk" in 2008. Its events take place in the fifth century AD between Upper Egypt, Alexandria and northern Syria, following the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire, and the ensuing internal sectarian conflict between the church fathers on the one hand, and the new believers on the other hand, declining paganism. The novel won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2009.
Dar Mim is a publishing house for Arabic literature based in Algiers, Algeria. Many of the works it has published have gone on to receive international critical acclaim.
