Introduction to Arab literature

Below you'll find links to articles on writers from around the Arab world. Most of them write in Arabic, although some write in French, English or other languages, and I give links in the articles to English translations and further reading. I've listed the authors by country of origin.

(Please be patient; this is a work in progress!)

In the UK, the best places to find Arabic literature in the original are Grant and Cutler and al-Saqi bookshops, both in London.

Algeria
*  Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Egypt
* Yahya Haqqi
* Ahmed Alaidy
* Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
* Ibrahim Aslan
* Khairy Shalaby
* Yusuf Idris
* Bahaa Taher
* Edwar al-Kharrat
* May Telmissany
* Alaa Al Aswany
* Naguib Mahfouz
* Mahmud Tahir Lashin
* Muhammad al-Muwaylihi
* Nawal al-Saadawi
* Taha Hussein

Iraq
* Fuad al-Takarli

Lebanon
* Hoda Barakat
* Elias Khoury
* Joumana Haddad
* Hanan Al-Shaykh

Libya
* Ibrahim al-Kouni

Morocco
* Mohammed Berrada
* Mohamed Choukri
* Ibn Battutah Leila Abouzeid

Palestine
* Suheir Hammad
* Yahya Yakhlif
* Emile Habiby
* Ghassan Kanafani
* Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
* Mourid Barghouti

Sudan
* Tayeb Saleh

Syria
* Ghada al-Samman

Yemen
* Zayd Mutee Dammaj


* Anthology of Palestinian Literature