Sa'ida Bint Khatir al-Farisi (born 1956) is an Omani poet.
Born in Sur, at the time part of Ash Sharqiyah Region, al-Farisi is a graduate from Kuwait University, from which she received her BA in Arabic and Islamic law in 1976. She also took a degree in education, and has since begun work on a master's degree in the field of Arabic literary criticism. Apart from her literary work she has served as assistant dean of students at Sultan Qaboos University. She has served on the board of the Cultural Club, and worked as editor-in-chief of al-'Umaniya magazine. Her earliest poetry collections date from the 1980s. [1]
Al-Farisi has received a number of local awards, as well as the Medal of Kings and Princes from the Gulf Cooperation Council in Literature.
Kamal al-Din Hasan ibn Ali ibn Hasan al-Farisi or Abu Hasan Muhammad ibn Hasan ) was a Persian Muslim scientist. He made two major contributions to science, one on optics, the other on number theory. Farisi was a pupil of the astronomer and mathematician Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, who in turn was a pupil of Nasir al-Din Tusi.
Najah Al-Attar is the Vice President of Syria, since 2006. She is the first Arab woman to have held the post. Previously she was minister of culture from 1976 to 2000.
Rajaa al-Sanea is a Saudi Arabian writer who became famous through her novel Girls of Riyadh. The book was first published in Lebanon in 2005 and in English in 2007. Al-Sanea grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of a family of doctors. As of 2014, she is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Ghadah Al-Samman is a Syrian writer, journalist and novelist born in Damascus in 1942 to a prominent and conservative Damascene family. Her father was Ahmed Al-Samman, a president of the University of Damascus. She is distantly related to poet Nizar Qabbani, and was deeply influenced by him after her mother died at a very young age.
Aisha Abd al-Rahman was an Egyptian author, editor and professor of literature who published under the pen name Bint al-Shāṭiʾ[Daughter of the Riverbank].
Abū Bakr, ‘Abd al-Qāhir ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī ; nicknamed "Al-Naḥawī", he was a renowned Persian grammarian of the Arabic language, literary theorist of the Muslim Shafi'i, and a follower of al-Ash'ari. He wrote several celebrated works on grammar and rhetoric, among these are Mi,ut Ạmil and Al-Jumal - introductions to Arabic syntax - and a commentary titled Al-Mughnī in three volumes.
Colette Khoury is a Syrian novelist and poet, born in 1931, who is also the granddaughter of former Syrian Prime Minister Faris al-Khoury. Khoury graduated from Damascus University with a bachelor's degree in French literature and she received a diploma from the school of literature in Beirut. Khoury's notability stirs from her work in politics and literature. Her work as a writer focuses on love and erotica, a subject that was previously taboo in Syrian culture.
Paula Haydar is an American academic and translator. She has a PhD in Comparative literature and an MFA in Literary translation. She won an Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize for her translation of Elias Khoury's The Kingdom of Strangers. Her work has appeared in Banipal magazine and she has translated the literary work of Jabbour Douaihy, Rachid Al-Daif and others.
Marilyn Louise Booth is an author, scholar and translator of Arabic literature. Since 2015, she has been the Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Alawiya Sobh is a Lebanese writer and author.
Sahier al-Qalamawi was a significant literary figure and politician from Egypt who shaped Arabic writing and culture through her writing, feminist activism, and advocacy. She was one of the first women to attend Cairo University and in 1941 became the first Egyptian woman to earn her Master of Arts Degree and PhD for her work in Arabic literature. After graduating, she was employed by the university as their first woman lecturer. Al-Qalamawi was also one of the first women to hold a number of chief positions including chairperson of the Arabic Department at Cairo University, president of the Egyptian Feminist Union, and president of the League of Arab Women University Graduates. Her writings include two volumes of short stories, ten critical studies, and many translations from world literature.Aḥādīth jaddatī was published in 1935.
Amal Taher Mohamed Naseer is a Jordanian writer, literary critic, and academic. She holds a doctorate in literature and criticism from the University of Jordan. She is the first woman to have a doctorate from her department at the University of Jordan.
Nora Amin is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer, and translator.
Mona Kareem is a Bedoon writer, translator and literary scholar. She is also an advocate of migrant rights. She was born in Kuwait to a stateless family, and this is a theme in her literary work.
Samar George Al Dayyoub is a Syrian critic, writer, and professor of Arabic, born in 1970. She received her higher education from Al-Baath University in Homs from 1993 to 2002. Al Dayyoub has been a member of both Arab Writers Union and Arab Union for Internet Writers since 2015. She has published several books on Arabic literary criticism, a notable example is ‘Al Khetab Tholathy A Ab’aad: Derasat Fe Al Adab Al Mo’aser’ which was nominated for 13th edition of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the ‘Literary & Art Criticism’ category. Al Dayyoub was also awarded the 2016 Merit prize of the ‘Naji Naaman Literary Prizes’ and the 2016 State Award from the Syrian Ministry of Culture.
Hind bint Abd al-Razzaq Huwayl al-Mutayri is a Saudi poet, writer and academic. She was born and raised in Taif, and it is where she received her education. She obtained a degree in the Arabic Language from King Saud University (1995) and a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature and Criticism from the Department of Arabic Language and Literature. She has participated in events, poetry slams, and readings both locally and internationally. She is also a member of Riyadh Literary Club and has two poetry collections and several critical and literary works.
Hanan Awwad is a Palestinian activist, advocate, and poet. She is the president and founder of the Palestine section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Awwad has advocated for Palestine in front of presidents and ministers.
Salma al-Haffar Kuzbari was a Syrian writer and translator. She is best known for her literary criticism and biography on the women's rights activist and writer May Ziadeh, as well as for her writing on Spain's Andalusia region, notably the book The Two Eyes of Seville.
Shamma Al Bastaki, Arabic: شما البستكي is an Emirati poet and artist from Dubai.