Fiction

Contemporary Saudi novels do more than recover the past. The bring back the lives, places, and ways of knowing what history leaves behind

The Spanish novelist and professor shares his musings on memory, moral courage, deception and faith

The Yemeni novelist and computer science professor speaks to Al Majalla about science, uncertainty, and the role of fiction in questioning inherited narratives of progress

The Egyptian legal expert and novelist tells Al Majalla about his favourite art form and what it means to him

The first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature has written eight novels, published three short story collections, and penned a wealth of poetry. Who is she—and what does she write about?

Once sniffed at as suitable only for children's theatre, authors in the Arab world are now discovering how a murder can help set the scene. Al Majalla looks at four great recent examples.

Perhaps the reason we’re no longer able to see into the future like the great writers of the twentieth century, is that we’re in our own version of what they predicted. …