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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.

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.

Works

• Winter of the Eskimo (1978, شتاء الاسكيمو)
• '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".

External links

• Archive of her work in arabic

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