1. Manal al-Sheikh
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Poet from Iraq. Al-Sheikh has been a very active participant in the Arab Union of Writers since 1993, and has published collections

2. Naji Oueijan
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Naji Oueijan was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He had his elementary and secondary education at Good Shepherd Secondary School, Achrafie

3. Carl Gibeily
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Carl Gibeily was born in Lebanon in 1966. After school in Beirut, he read engineering at Cambridge. He has worked as an engineer in

4. Abdo Wazen
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Born in Beirut in 1957, Abdo Wazen published his first collection of poems in 1982, followed by six subsequent volumes. His 1993 no

5. Youssef Ziedan
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Youssef Ziedan was born in upper Egypt in 1958 and at the age of 8 moved to Alexandria, where he later entered the university to st

6. Abdellah Taïa
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Abdellah Taïa was born in Sale, Morocco, in 1973. He is renowned as the first openly gay autobiographical writer published in

7. Abdelwahab Meddeb
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Biography: Born in Tunisia in 1946, Abdelwahab Meddeb moved to Paris as a student, where he studied literature and art history. Poet, novelist

8. gladys matar
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9. gladys matar (informal biography )
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Gladys Matar: Award Winning, Celebrated Female Arabic Author Born to Wade Matar: a pioneering architect and Leila Richo: an artistic home maker, Gladys Matar found herself in an ideal environment fo

10. informal biography
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  Informal Biography    Born to Wade Matar: a pioneering architect and Leila Richo: an artistic home maker, Gladys Matar found herself in an ideal environment for the growth of h

11. Wolves of the Crescent Moon
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...n and reality, and grips Turad during the long night in the bus station. Threaded throughout is the dramatic biography of Turad himself, once a Bedouin hunter, “the son of a tribe,” (p. 7)...

12. Najah Awadallah
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Najah Abd ar-Rahman `Awadallah was born in Gaza on 12 Dec 1968. She received her high school diploma in Damascus, Syria in 1987, an

13. Ehab Bessaiso
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Ehab Bessaiso is a Palestinian poet and writer. He was born in Gaza and currently lives in the UK. His first poetry book (Nawras Al

14. Khaled Jum'a
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Khaled Jum’a is a poet and author of children’s books. He was born in Rafah, on 25 October 1965, and lives there c

15. Faten al-Gharra
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Faten Muhammad Diyab al-Gharrah was born in Gaza City and now lives in Cairo. She has been a member of the Union of Palestinian Wri

16. Nasr Jamil Shaath
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Nasr was born in 1979 in the city of Khan Younis, South Gaza Strip, Palestine. He holds a B.A in Economics and Political Science. H

17. Soumaya Susi
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Soumaya Susi was born in Gaza in 1974. She is married and lives in Gaza with her two children. She works as a researcher in the Soc

18. Nazik al-Malaika
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Born in Baghdad in 1922 to a mother who was also a poet and a father who was a teacher, al-Malaika, the oldest among seven siblings

19. Mahmoud al-Wardani
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Mahmoud Al-Wardani, born in Cairo in 1950, is a writer and cultural journalist. He is the author of six novels and three collection

20. Atef Abu Seif
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Atef Abu Seif was born in Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in1973. He attended school in Gaza. He holds a bachelor's degree

21. Milton Hatoum
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Milton Hatoum was born in Manaus, Brazil in 1952. He has taught at the University of Amazonas and University of California (Be

22. Mayselun Hadi
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Mayselun Hadi was born in 1954 in Baghdad. She graduated in Management and Economics from Baghdad University. Since her first

23. Samuel Shimon
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Samuel Shimon was born into an Assyrian family in Al-Habbaniyah, Iraq, in 1956. He left his country in 1979, with the dream of beco

24. Khalid Kishtainy
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Khalid Kishtainy was born in Baghdad in 1929. He trained as a lawyer and an artist. He graduated from University of Baghdad, Facult

25. Khairi Mansour
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Khairi Mansour was born in Deir al-Ghusoon near Tulkarrn in 1945. He studied in Cairo. In 1967 he was deported from the West Bank t

26. Ghazi al-Theeba [stub]
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Ghazi al-Theeba is a Palestinian poet and journalist. He has three collections of poetry, and is editor of the literary page of al-

27. Youssef Abd al-Aziz
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Youssef Abd al-Aziz was born in Beit Inan near Jerusalem in 1956, and graduated from the Arab University of Beirut in 1986. Abd-al-

28. Khaled Abdallah
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Khaled Abdallah was born in Gaza. He has one collection of poems, FM, which won the 2001 AM Qattan Foundation poetry prize.

29. Mohammad H Ghanaiem
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Mohammad H Ghanaiem was born in 1957 in Baqa El-Gharbiya in the Meshlash area. He studied at Tel Aviv University and worked for man

30. Anas al-Ayla
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Anas al-Ayla was born in 1975 in Qalqiliya. He graduated from Birzeit University with a degree in Arabic and a diploma in journalis