Mayfa' Abdel Rahman al-Qiyadi (born 1951 – 3 ِApril 2021) was a

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

i short story writer and journalist. He studied at the Gorky Institute in

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and obtained an MA in 1982. He is known for his

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...

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

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). Abdel Rahman has worked for the Ministry of Information in

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. 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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1951 births Place of birth missing 2021 deaths Yemeni writers Yemeni journalists {{Yemen-writer-stub