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Raja Alem


Born
Mecca/Hejaz, Saudi Arabia
Genre
Fiction


Raja'a Alem (Arabic: رجاء عالم) is a Saudi Arabian novelist. She studied English Literature at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah in 1980. She began her writing career on the "Letters and Ideas" page in Al-Riyadh newspaper, as well as in the newspaper's weekly supplement. She is credited with documenting the Meccan/Hejazi environment in her novels. Her novels are distinguished by a symbolic Sufi/Gnostic narrative with broad cosmic visions. Some of her works have been translated into English and Spanish. ...more

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Average rating: 3.18 · 1,751 ratings · 412 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
طوق الحمام
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2.98 avg rating — 825 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions
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ستر
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3.15 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2005
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خاتم
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3.56 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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باهبل: مكة Multiverse 2009-...
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3.21 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2023
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Fatma: A Novel of Arabia
3.07 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions
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Sarab
3.40 avg rating — 45 ratings — 8 editions
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My Thousand and One Nights:...
3.53 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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طريق الحرير
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3.35 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1995
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حبى
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3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2000
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موقد الطير
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3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2002
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“Sidi, I ache inside. I yearn to fly away, to feel free in the light, in the dark. I don't ever want to come back.”
― Raja alem
tags: dysphoria
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“One of the things I believe is that as long as Raja and I are translating, her people and mine may have something to do besides going to war for embarrassing reasons.”
― Raja Alem, My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca
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“Arabia, like Ireland, is mostly a country in a movie.”
― Raja Alem, My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca
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