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Nourah Al Saad

Qatari writer and academic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Nourah Al Saad (born 1964, Doha) is a Qatari writer and academic.[1][2][3]

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Biography

Nourah Al Saad received a Bachelor of Education from the Department of Arabic Language at Qatar University in 1985 and then a Master of Arts in the Department of Arabic Language from the University of Jordan in 1992.[2][3]

Her articles[4] have appeared in Al Raya newspaper.

Writing

Al Saad has published work since the 1980s, and began publishing short stories in newspapers. She compiled seven of these short stores for her first collection, The Newspaper Seller, which was published in 1989.[5][6]

In 2005, Al Saad published two books of literary criticism: Voices of Silence: Essays on the Qatari Story and Narrative, an analysis of Qatari writers, and Abdul Rahman Munif's Experience in Salt Cities, which analyzed the Syrian writer Abdul Rahman Munif.[7]

Al Saad's 2010 novel, al-Aridah, follows a family from Doha through Qatar's political changes in the 20th century.[3]

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Works

  • Wa tawāṣaw bi-al-ḥaqq [And seek the truth]. 2003. OCLC 642721088. (collection of articles)
  • al-ʻArīḍah [The Petition]. 2010. OCLC 689543588. (novel)

Literary criticism

Short story collections

  • Ba'i' al-jara'id [The Newspaper Seller]. 1989.[9]
  • Bārānūyā [Paranoia]. 2013. OCLC 847369829.
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References

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