Modern Arab Writers recommended by the Arabic Program
Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
Sonallah Ibrahim, Egypt
Salwa Bakr, Egypt
Radwa 'Ashour, Egypt/Palestine
Idwar al-Kharrat, Egypt
Ibrahim 'Abd al-Majid, Egypt
Al-Tayyib Saleh, Sudan
Hammour Ziada, Sudan
Elias Khoury, Lebanon
Hanan al-Shaykh, Lebanon
Khalid Khalifah, Syria
Salim Barakat, Syria
Ghassan Kanafani, Palestine
Sahar Khalifeh, Palestine
Imil Habibi, Palestine/Israel
Fu'ad Tikarli, Iraq
Ahmad Saadawi, Iraq
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Iraq/Palestine
Ibrahim al-Koni, Libya
Al-Tahir Wattar, Algeria
Ahlam Mostaghanemi, Algeria
Habib Selmi, Tunisia
Leila Abu Zeid, Morocco
Yusuf Fadel, Morocco
Muhammad Barrada, Morocco
Jokha al-Harthi, Oman
Muhammad 'Abd al-Wali, Yemen
'Abd al-Rahman Munif, Saudi Arabia
Ghalib Halasa, Jordan
Jalal Barjas, Jordan