Umm Aktham

Fatimah Abdullah al Turki (فاطمة عبد الله التركي, born 1953) is a Qatari writer, who has written under the pseudonym Umm Aktham( أمّاأكثم ) or Sarah(سارة) in the 1970s.[1]

Fatimah Turki
Born1953
NationalityQatari
Occupationwriter

Styles and political views

She frequented attacks on the arabic society on the suffering of women under arabian regimes, but did not aspire a western liberal model.[2]

Works
  • Winter of the Eskimo (1978, شتاء الاسكيمو)[3]
  • 'Yawmiyat fi-l-manfa(يوميات في المنفى,Memoirs in exile)', in Layla Salih, ed., Adab al-mar ah fi al-Jazirah wa al-Khalij al-Arabi(Women's literature at the Arabian peninsula and Arabian gulf), 1983, pp. 266–74

References
  1. Miriam Cooke (1992). "Arab Women Writers". Modern Arabic Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 448. ISBN 978-0-521-33197-5.
  2. الادب العربي الحديث. النادي الادبي الثقافي. p. 634.
  3. "المرأة القطرية في فضاءاتها الإبداعية".

Archive of her work in arabic

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