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ليل ينسى ودائعه
2025
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"كُنَّا جالِسَيْن على كرسيين متجاوِرَيْن. كانا كرسيين من قصب، أو خشب، أو كرتون مقوى. كُنَّا في البيت، نجلس مُتجِهَيْن نحو الباب. ولكن مقابلنا بابَيْن، وليس بابا واحدا. كنا ننظر باستقامة نحو البابَيْن، وكان أمامنا منضدة صغيرة بها مفتاحان. مدَّ يده، أمسك بالمفتاحَيْن، ثم ناولني واحداً دون أن يلتفت. أغلقتُ قبضتي على المفتاح، ثم نهضتُ. مشيتُ نحو الباب، الباب الذي كان مقابلي، وفتحته بالمفتاح فانفتَحْ، فخرجتُ....".

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Jokha Alharthi
Jokha Alharthi
Author · 6 books

Jokha al-Harthi (Arabic: جوخة الحارثي‎; born July 1978) is an Omani writer and academic. She was educated in Oman and in the United Kingdom. She obtained her PhD in classical Arabic literature from Edinburgh University. She is currently an associate professor in the Arabic department at Sultan Qaboos University. al-Harthi has published three collections of short stories and three novels (Manamat, Sayyidat el-Qamar and Narinjah). She has also authored academic works. Her work has been translated into English, Serbian, Korean, Italian, and German and published in Banipal magazine. She was also one of eight participants in the 2011 IPAF Nadwa (writers' workshop). al-Harthi won the Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature, for her novel Narinjah (Bitter Orange) in 2016. Sayyidat el-Qamar was shortlisted for Zayed Award 2011 and has been translated into English by Marilyn Booth. It was published in the UK by Sandstone Press in June 2018 under the title Celestial Bodies, and won the Man Booker International Prize 2019.

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