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Habib Sayah (born 1950) is an Algerian novelist. He studied literature at Oran University, graduating in 1980. He has written ten novels, several of which have been translated into French. He won the Abdelhamid ben Hadouga Prize for the Novel in 2003 and was nominated for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2019. [1]
Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into over 40 languages.
Ibrahim Nasrallah, the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize (2018), was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were evicted from their land in Al-Burayj, Palestine in 1948. He spent his childhood and youth in a refugee camp in Jordan, and began his career as a teacher in Saudi Arabia. After returning to Amman, he worked in the media and cultural sectors till 2006 when he dedicated his life to writing. To date, he has published 15 poetry collections, 22 novels, and several other books. In 1985, he started writing the Palestinian Comedy covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history in a series of novels in which each novel is an independent one; to date 13 novels have been published in the framework of this project. Five of his novels and a volume of poetry have been published in English, nine in Persian, four works in Italian, two in Spanish, and one novel in Danish and Turkish.
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.
Mirza Qaleech Baig was a scholar within Sindhi literature. He was born on 4 October 1853 in Tando Thoro on the bank of Phuleli Canal in Hyderabad, British India.
Saïd Sayah is an Algerian football player who is currently playing as a midfielder for JSM Tiaret in the Algerian Ligue 2.
Habib Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri is a Yemeni Sunni Islamic scholar and spiritual educator based in the United Arab Emirates. He is the founder of Tabah Foundation, a research institute based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is a direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Habib Abdulrab Sarori is a Yemeni computer scientist and novelist. He was born in Aden and pursued higher studies in France, obtaining a master's degree in Informatics from the University of Paris 6 in 1983, followed by a PhD from the University of Rouen in 1987. He is currently a professor in the Mathematical and Software Engineering Department at Rouen and also at INSA de Rouen. He has published numerous scientific papers over the last two decades. He is also the author of textbooks in computer science.
Habib Selmi is a Tunisian novelist and short story writer.
Benny Daniel, better known by his penname Benyamin, is an Indian writer in Malayalam from Kerala. He is the author of about thirty books in various genres – from short stories to novels and memoirs. For his novel Goat Days (Aadujeevitham), he won the Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and JCB Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. The novel Manthalirile 20 Communist Varshangal won the Vayalar Award in 2021. He entered the Malayalam film industry in 2023 as a co-writer of the Malayalam film Christy with the writer G.R. Indugopan, which marked his debut as a screenwriter. And also, his magnum opus novel Aadujeevitham has been adapted by director Blessy into a film,The Goat Life. Which will be releasing on 28th March 2024.
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.
Mirza Habib Esfahani was an Iranian poet, grammarian and translator, who lived in exile in the Ottoman Empire for much of his life. He is principally known for his Persian translation of the satirical novel The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan and for composing the first systematic grammar of the Persian language.
The Katara Prize for Arabic Novel is an Arabic literary prize based in Qatar. It was established in 2014 by the Katara Cultural Village. The total prize pool is $650,000 and the main prize $200,000, making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world. One of its sponsors is UNESCO. The winning novels will be translated into five languages - including French and English.
Paul Nabil El-Sayah is an Archeparch of the Maronite Church and Curial Bishop of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch.
Wassila Ben Ammar Bourguiba was the second wife of the former Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba and the First Lady of Tunisia from 1962 until 1986. She was called Majda (venerable).
The Habib Bourguiba bibliography includes major books about President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, his biography, presidency and policies.
Mohamed Sayah was a Tunisian politician who held a number of ministerial roles in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Hassouna Mosbahi is a Tunisian author, literary critic and freelance journalist.
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.
The Scents of Marie-Claire is the seventh novel by Tunisian novelist Habib Selmi. The novel was first published in Lebanon in 2008 by the House of Literature for Publishing and Distribution. The novel was translated into a variety of languages, including English, French, Italian, and German, and made it to the final "short" list of the 2009 World Prize for Arabic Novel, known as the "Arab Booker Prize".
Suslov's Daughter is a novel by Yemeni writer Habib Abdulrab Sarori. It was longlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. In 2017, Darf Publishers published an English translation by Elisabeth Jaquette.
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