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Raja Alem


Born
Saudi Arabia
Genre
Fiction


Raja'a Alem is a Saudi Arabian novelist from Mecca/Hejaz. She received her BA in English Literature and works as a tutor for the Center for Training Kindergarten Teachers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. ...more

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Average rating: 3.14 · 1,594 ratings · 384 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors
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2.97 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2010 — 23 editions
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3.15 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2005
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3.57 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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Fatma: A Novel of Arabia
3.08 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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My Thousand and One Nights:...
3.53 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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Sarab
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ArabLit Quarterly: Fall 2018
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Hyattombs Hyattombs: A Novel
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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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