Abd al-Majeed al-Qadi (Arabic: عبد المجيد القاضي ; born 1934) is a

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

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and writer. His work is notable for its engagement with social problems that afflict Yemen. His first two plays were called ''Al-Daudahi's Daughter'' and ''Young Man Mansour''. His short story, "The Final Ring", has been translated into

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and appeared in a 1988 anthology on modern Arabian literature (edited by

Salma Khadra Jayyusi Salma Khadra Jayyusi ( ar, سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي; born 1926 or 1927) is a Palestinian poet, writer, translator and anthologist. She is the founder and director of the Project of Translation from Arabic (PROTA), which aims to provi ...

).Jayyusi (2014) ''op. cit.'
"The Final Ring"
Page 419.

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1934 births Yemeni dramatists and playwrights Living people {{Yemen-writer-stub