Symbols and flags of Arabic literature hosted by the 40th edition of the Sharjah Book Fair
The 40th session of the Sharjah International Book Fair opens the door for its visitors, adults and children, to meet and debate symbols of Arabic literature, including novelists, thinkers and academics. The discussion will be held over 11 days, from the 3rd to the 13th of November, at the Expo Center Sharjah.
The exhibition, which is held under the slogan (Here.. You have a book), will host from the UAE poet and novelist Maysoon Al Qasimi, author of the novel “In my mouth is a pearl”;
The poet and researcher Awad Al-Darmaki, the author of “Do Not Humiliate Him,” “Dinosaurs Don’t Know Driving a Cadillac,” “Memories of San Diego,” and “The Book of Oaks.”
the artist Ahmed Al Jasmi, who has acted in major Emirati and Gulf dramas and plays;
The storyteller and novelist Fatima Al Mazrouei, author of the novel “Sharp Angle,” and many others.
From Algeria, the exhibition will host the novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi, the author of many famous novels such as “Chaos of the Senses”, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Prize in 1998 for her novel “Memory in the Flesh”, and the novelist Wassini Laaraj, winner of the Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature 2007, and author of The Guardian of Shadows ( Don Quixote in Algeria), which was chosen in 1997 among the five best novels issued in France, and the academic and critic Abdelkader Faidoh, a member of the International Society for Semiotic Studies.
The exhibition will be hosted by Saudi artist and poet Khaled Abdel Rahman, the novelist Badriya Al-Bishr, who won the award for the best Arab press column at the Arab Press Award 2011 in Dubai, the academic Ali Ibrahim Al-Namla, who has many books on Orientalism and Islamic studies to his credit, and the novelist Osama bin Muhammad Al-Muslim, the author of the novel “Fear”, and the storyteller Hassan Al-Naimi, who received the Literary and Critical Studies Award from the Jeddah Literary Club 2015, for a number of his short stories.
From Egypt, the exhibition will host the artist Mohamed Sobhi, who won dozens of major awards at the local and international levels, including the Dr. Souad Al-Sabah Award for Intellectual Creativity; The poet Hisham El-Gakh, winner of the best colloquial poet award in Egypt in 2008 and second place in the Prince of Poets competition in 2011, and Ahmed Emara, a mental health and bio-energy consultant; And the novelist Ahmed Murad, the author of the novels “Vertigo” and “The Blue Elephant,” the novelist Youssef Al-Qaeed, whose novel “The War in the Land of Egypt” ranked fourth among the best hundred Arab novels, and the writer and jewelry designer Azza Fahmy.
It also hosts from Egypt the writer Medhat El-Adl, who wrote a number of songs for the most famous Arab singers, and has achieved great success in writing films and TV series;
The novelist Mansoura Ezz El-Din, winner of the Best Egyptian Short Collection Award at the 2014 Cairo International Book Fair for her short story collection “Towards Madness”, the novelist Nour Abdel Meguid, the author of the novel “I Want a Man”;
And writer and journalist Nashwa Abdel Moneim El-Sayed El-Hofy, Director General of Cultural Publishing at Nahdet Misr Publishing House.
From Jordan, the exhibition will be hosted by the Jordanian novelist Jalal Barjas, The Arab Booker Harvest for the year 2021, for his novel “The Notebooks of Warraq”;
Former Jordanian Minister of Culture, poet Haider Mahmoud Haider, and thinker Adnan Al-Bakhit, recipient of the State Prize in Social Sciences in Jordan.
From Tunisia, he is a guest of the exhibition, the novelist Shukri Al-Mabkhout, who won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (The Booker) 2015 for his first novel, “The Italian”;
the novelist Habib al-Salmi, who won the State Prize for Literature in Tunisia for his collection of short stories “Cities of the Immigrant Man” 1978;
And the academic, Laila Al-Obaidi, winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2012 for the book “Al-Fakkah in Islam”.
The exhibition will also host from Kuwait: the novelist Saud Al-Sanousi, winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel The Bamboo Stalk 2013;
the poet Faisal Al-Adwani, the author of the collections “Hawass” and “Try to Be”;
The writer and former Minister of Information Sami Abdullatif Al-Nisf, and the poet and novelist Abdullah Al-Busais, winner of the Sharjah International Book Fair Award for Best Arab Book in 2017, for his novel “Taste of the Wolf”, and the academic Shahd Al-Shammari, a researcher in women’s novels and disability in the Arab world.
The guest list from Iraq includes the novelist Inam Kajaji, author of the novel "The American Granddaughter", which was shortlisted for the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and the novelist Shahd Al-Rawi, winner of the Edinburgh Festival Prize for First Fiction, for the novel "The Baghdad Clock", which was shortlisted for the Novel Prize. Al-Arabiya (Booker), the novelist Mohsen Al-Ramli, the owner of “Tamr Al-Asaba” and “The President’s Gardens”, which were longlisted for the Arab Booker Prize 2010 and 2013, the thinker Bashar Awad Maarouf, who specializes in manuscript investigation, and theatrical director Jawad Al-Asadi, who won the Prince Claus Prize for dedicating his work in Freedom of cultural expression and thought in both Iraq and abroad 2004.
From Syria, the novelist Khaled Khalifa, who won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for the novel, and was shortlisted for the Arab Novel Prize (The Booker), and the novelist Khalil Sweileh, who won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Arabic Fiction 2009 for his novel “The War of Love.”
The guest of the exhibition from Bahrain is the poet Dalal Abdullah Yousef, who has in her credit several books, including “Dalal Al-Mashaer” and “Maryam’s Cage”;
the critic Anisa Ibrahim Al-Saadoun, who has many achievements in the field of studies to her credit;
And writer Mansoura Al-Jamri, who specializes in film criticism.
As for Morocco, the novelist Youssef Fadel, who won the High Atlas Prize in 2000, and the academic Rashid Al-Idrisi, who won first place in the Sharjah Prize for Arab Poetry Criticism 2020, will participate, while from Libya, the academic Fatima Ghandour, a researcher in women’s issues, and the poet Kholoud Al-Falah, whose texts were chosen, will participate. Poetry is included in the book "100 Women Poets from the Arab World: Poems Spreading Love and Peace".
The cultural audience in Sharjah will meet with the Lebanese poet Shawki Bazieh, who won the Okaz Poet Prize 2010, and the Al Owais Cultural Prize 2015;
And from Oman is the playwright Hilal bin Saif Al-Badi, who won the first place award for the Arab Theater Authority competition for playwriting for adults 2010.
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