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Fatma Yousif al-Ali (born 1953) is a Kuwaiti journalist and short story writer. A graduate in Arabic Literature from Cairo University, in 1971 she became the first Kuwaiti woman to write a novel. She has also published four collections of short stories. She is a prominent member of the Kuwaiti Literary Association. Her work has been published in Banipal magazine. [1]
Tayeb Salih was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO. He is best known for his novel Season of Migration to the North, considered to be one of the most important novels in Arabic literature. His novels and short stories have been translated into English and more than a dozen other languages.
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.
Mansoura Ez-Eldin is an Egyptian novelist and journalist.
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.
Mohammad al-Qaood is a Yemeni poet and short story writer. The author's work has been published in Banipal magazine. The author of 13 books of poetry, prose and short stories, he is the cultural editor of the al-Thawra newspaper which is based in the capital of Sana’a.
Taleb Alrefai is a Kuwaiti journalist and writer, born in Kuwait. An employee of Kuwait’s National Council for Culture, Arts, & Letters, and the monthly tabloid Jaridat Al-Fonoon, a monthly arts tabloid, his novels include Shade of the Sun (1998), Samar's Words (2006) and The Nejdi (al-Najdi) (2017). His work has been published Banipal magazine.
Nadia Al-Kokabany is a Yemeni novelist, short story writer and academic. She was born in Taiz and studied architecture at Sanaa University. She completed a PhD in architecture at Cairo University in 2008, before returning to take up an academic position at Sanaa University.
Sahar Tawfiq is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer and translator. Born and raised in Cairo, she studied Arabic language and literature at Al-Azhar University. She has worked as a teacher and educationist in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Dima Wannous is a Syrian writer and translator. She studied French literature at Damascus University and the Sorbonne. Also, she studied translation in France and has lived in Beirut, where she worked for the newspapers Al-Hayat and As-Safir. She has also worked for broadcast media.
Mohamed Makhzangi is an Egyptian doctor and writer.
Mohamed Salah El Azab is an Egyptian writer and novelist.
Laila al-Juhani is a Saudi Arabian novelist and short story writer. She was born in the northern city of Tubuq. She studied at King Abdul Aziz University in Medina, obtaining a bachelor's degree in English literature. She then went on to receive an MA in Foreign Languages and a PhD in education/psychology, the latter from the University of Tiba in Medina.
Laila al-Ouhaydib is a Saudi Arabian short story writer and novelist. Her debut collection of short stories came out in 1997. Her stories have appeared in English translation in Banipal magazine and in Beyond the Dunes (2006), an anthology of contemporary Saudi literature. More recently, in 2009, she published her first novel under the title The Eyes of Foxes.
Maia Tabet is an Arabic-English literary translator with a background in editing and journalism. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1956, she was raised in Lebanon, India, and England. She studied philosophy and political science at the American University in Beirut and lives between the United States and Cyprus.
Sara al-Jarwan is an Emirati novelist, short story writer and playwright. Born in Ajman, she joined the UAE armed forces as a soldier just before the 1991 Gulf War. This experience was the basis of a book as well as a play. She also served as an editor of Dara al-Watan, the magazine of the armed forces.
Ghalia Qabbani is a Syrian writer and journalist. She grew up in Kuwait, but was forced to leave after the Iraqi invasion in 1990.
Huzama Habayeb ) is a Palestinian novelist, storyteller, columnist, translator, and poet who has won multiple awards such as Mahmoud Seif Eddin ِAl-Erani Award for Short Stories, Jerusalem Festival of Youth Innovation in Short Stories, and Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. Upon graduating from Kuwait University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in English language and Literature, she pursued careers in journalism, teaching, and translation before she eventually started to write professionally as a published author. She is a member of both the Jordanian Writers Association and the Arab Writers Federation.
Najwa Bin Shatwan is a Libyan academic and novelist, the first Libyan to ever be shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction. She has authored four novels: Waber Al Ahssina ; Madmum Burtuqali ; Zareeb Al-Abeed ; and Roma Termini, in addition to several collections of short stories, plays and contributions to anthologies. She was chosen as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty by Hay Festival’s Beirut 39 project (2009). In 2018, she was chosen from hundreds of Arab writers for the 2018 Banipal Writing Fellowship Residency at the University of Durham and in 2020, she was chosen to co-lead a series of creative writing workshops in Sharjah for Arab writers. Also, she was chosen as a member of jury in various literary awards/grants.
Mona Al-Shamari is a Kuwaiti novelist and writer. She studied theatre and drama at Kuwait University. She started publishing short stories in the late 1980s; in 1990, one of her stories won a prize from the Emirati Writers' Union. Her first collection of stories was published in 2012. Among her novels are No Music in Al Ahmadi, which was adapted for the screen, and The Maids of the Shrine, which was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize.
Najlaa Osman Eltom is a Sudanese writer, poet and translator writing in Arabic. She also has translated short stories by other Sudanese literary writers into English. Since 2012, she has been living in Sweden.
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