Nourah Al Saad
Nourah Al Saad is a Qatari writer and academic.
Biography
Nourah Al Saad received a Bachelor of Education from the Department of Arabic Language at Qatar University in 1985 and then a Master of Arts in the Department of Arabic Language from the University of Jordan in 1992.Her articles have appeared in Al Raya newspaper.
Writing
Al Saad has published work since the 1980s, and began publishing short stories in newspapers. She compiled seven of these short stores for her first collection, The Newspaper Seller, which was published in 1989.In 2005, Al Saad published two books of literary criticism: Voices of Silence: Essays on the Qatari Story and Narrative, an analysis of Qatari writers, and Abdul Rahman Munif's Experience in Salt Cities, which analyzed the Syrian writer Abdul Rahman Munif.
Al Saad's 2010 novel, al-Aridah, follows a family from Doha through Qatar's political changes in the 20th century.