Umm Aktham

Fatimah Abdullah al Turki (فاطمة عبد الله التركي, born 1953) is a Qatari writer, who has written under the pseudonym Umm Aktham( أمّاأكثم ) or Sarah(سارة) in the 1970s and 1980s.^[1][2]

Fatimah Turki
Born	1953 (age 71–72)
Occupation	writer

Styles and political views

In her writing, she sometimes attacked Arabic society for its disadvantages to women, but did not aspire a western liberal model.^[1][3] Critics describe how her writing highlights contradictions and contrasts, between reality and imagination, internal and external worlds, life and death, riches and poverty.^[4][5]

Works

• Winter of the Eskimo (1978, شتاء الاسكيمو)^[6]
• 'Yawmiyat fi-l-manfa (يوميات في المنفى, Memoirs in exile)', in Layla Salih, ed., Adab al-mar ah fi al-Jazirah wa al-Khalij al-Arabi(Women's literature at the Arabian peninsula and Arabian gulf), 1983, pp. 266–74^[4]