Mayfa' Abdel Rahman al-Qiyadi (born 1951 – 3 ِApril 2021) was a
Yemeni short story writer and journalist. He studied at the
Gorky Institute
The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (russian: Литературный институт им. А. М. Горького) is an institution of higher education in Moscow. It is located at 25 Tverskoy Boulevard in central Moscow.
History
The insti ...
in
Moscow and obtained an MA in 1982. He is known for his
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
Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. ...
. 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.
Yemeni court gives five journalists suspended jail terms, May 2010
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References
1951 births
Yemeni writers
Yemeni journalists
Place of birth missing (living people)
2021 deaths
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