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Turki Al-Hamad


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Saudi Arabia

Turki al-Hamad is a Saudi Arabian political analyst, journalist, and novelist, best known for his trilogy about the coming-of-age of Hisham al-Abir, a Saudi Arabian teenager, the first installment of which, Adama, was published in 1998. Although banned in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait, the Arabic edition of the trilogy — called in Arabic Atyaf al-Aziqah al-Mahjurah (Phantoms of the Deserted Alley) — has sold 20,000 copies.

The novels explore the issues of sexuality, underground political movements, scientific truth, rationalism, and religious freedom against the backdrop of the late 1960s and early 1970s, a volatile period in Saudi Arabia, sandwiched between the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 oil crisis. Hamad is quoted on the cover of on ...more

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“عندما يموت الأب، تحس أن شيئا من ذاتك قد مات، وأن حائطا كنت تستند إليه قد انهار، ولكنك لاتشعر بوجود هذا الجدار حتى ينهار ، فتتمنى لو عاد الزمان الذهبي الجميل، ولكن هل يعود مامضى!”
― Turki Al-Hamad
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“لابد للجمال من قبح، ولابد للخير من شر”
― Turki Al-Hamad
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