198x129mm, 106 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 9781914325410 Price: £9.99 Available: October 2024 
Dukhna Nights |
Dukhna Nights
Khaled Ahmed Al-Youssef An enchanting memoir capturing a fascinating slice of Riyadh's history that might otherwise be lost to us.
Dukhna Nights is a deeply personal narrative that shares with us a window into the Saudi capital city across the 1960s and 1970s. Al Yousef explores the various areas of Riyadh but is true focus is on neighbourhood which he knew and loved: Dukhna, an ancient area that once lay within the city walls.
The vivid world Al Youssef conjures up brings us an array of colours, scents and emotions from a tantalisingly vanished world, enlivened by anecdotes related with a powerful zest for life and language. |
Born in Dukhna, a suburb of Ryadh, in 1960, Khaled Ahmed Al Youssef studied at the College of Social Sciences at Imam Muhammad bin Saud University and graduated in the field of library studies and technology. He went on to work as Director of a major library in Saudi Arabia, and is well known in his homeland as a literary figure and prolific writer of books and short stories, often recounting tales that relate something of the history of Saudi Arabia.
He is an important figure in the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts and a member of many literary associations including the Riyadh Literary Club Library and the Scientific Council of the Saudi Literature Chair at King Saud University in Riyadh. He has also served as editor of The World of Books magazine (Alam al-Kutub) and The Arab Magazine amongst a wide range of other literary publications and journals. |
