Mayfa' Abdel Rahman
Mayfa' Abdel Rahman al-Qiyadi (born 1951 – 3 ِApril 2021) was a
short stories which explore the social and political realities of Yemen. His first collection of short stories appeared in 1975, followed by a second one in 1983. His work has appeared in English translation in a 1988 anthology called The Literature of Modern Arabia (edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi
).
Abdel Rahman has worked for the Ministry of Information in Aden. He has also been a contributor to Yemeni journals such as Al-Nidaa. In 2010, as part of a court judgment against Al-Nidaa and its journalists, Abdel Rahman was given a three-month suspended jail sentence.[3]
References
- ^ Biographical note in The Literature of Modern Arabia
- ^ "وفاة الأديب اليمني ميفع عبدالرحمن مثأثرًا بجلطة دماغية". www.ejazpress.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 11 January 2023.
- ^ Yemeni court gives five journalists suspended jail terms, May 2010