Category: Novels by Arab writers

In the Middle Ages, the Arab world gave us a great number of outstanding poets, writers, philosophers and scholars whose works had a significant impact on European literature and culture.

Nightmares of Beirut

Ghada al-Samman (Arabic: غادة السمان, b. 1942) is a Syrian novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, publisher, and one of the world’s best known Syrian novelists.Ghada al-Samman was born in Damascus

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Ibrahim Al-Quni – Desert Devils

The novel “Desert Devils” (original title “Al-Majus”) is one of the most famous works of Libyan writer Ibrahim al-Quni, winner of numerous Arab and international literary prizes.

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Children of our street. Naguib Mahfouz

“Children of our street” – the main work of the great Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

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