Umm Aktham
{{Short description|Qatari writer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Fatimah Turki
| birth_date = 1953
| nationality = Qatari
| occupation = writer
}}
Fatimah Abdullah al Turki (فاطمة عبد الله التركي, born 1953) is a Qatari writer, who has written under the pseudonym Umm Aktham( أمّاأكثم ) or Sarah(سارة) in the 1970s and 1980s.{{cite book|author=Miriam Cooke|title=Modern Arabic Literature|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pk5TA0sfERIC&pg=PA448|year=1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-33197-5|page=448|chapter=Arab Women Writers}}{{cite journal |last1=Akhmedova |first1=Shakhlo Irgashbaevna |title=THE ISSUE OF WOMEN'S PLACE IN THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY IN THE CREATION OF GULF ARAB COUNTRIES' LITERATURE |journal=Oriental Renaissance: Innovative, Educational, Natural and Social Sciences |date=2022 |volume=2 |issue=12 |pages=1174–1179 |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/the-issue-of-womens-place-in-the-family-and-society-in-the-creation-of-gulf-arab-countries-literature/viewer |access-date=1 March 2025}}
Styles and political views
In her writing, she sometimes attacked Arabic society for its disadvantages to women, but did not aspire a western liberal model.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jh_vAAAAMAAJ&q=%D9%81%D9%8E%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%90%D9%85%D9%8E%D8%A9++%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A+%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%91+%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%AB%D9%85|title=الادب العربي الحديث|date=2002 |page=634|publisher=النادي الادبي الثقافي|isbn=978-9960-757-33-9 }} Critics describe how her writing highlights contradictions and contrasts, between reality and imagination, internal and external worlds, life and death, riches and poverty.{{cite book |last1=Yazıcı |first1=Hüseyin |title=The short story in modern Arabic literature |date=2004 |publisher=General Egyptian Book Organization |isbn=9789770193280 |page=188 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GNxjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Umm+Aktham%22 |access-date=1 March 2025}}
Works
- Winter of the Eskimo (1978, شتاء الاسكيمو){{cite web|url=https://magazine.jouhina.com/archive_article.php?id=161|title=المرأة القطرية في فضاءاتها الإبداعية|access-date=2022-11-15|archive-date=2025-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250223090101/https://magazine.jouhina.com/archive_article.php?id=161|url-status=dead}}
- 'Yawmiyat fi-l-manfa (يوميات في المنفى, Memoirs in exile)', in Layla Salih, ed., Adab al-mar ah fi al-Jazirah wa al-Khalij al-Arabi(Women's literature at the Arabian peninsula and Arabian gulf), 1983, pp. 266–74{{cite book |editor1-last=Ghazoul |editor1-first=Ferial |editor2-last=Reda-Mekdashi |editor2-first=Hasna |editor3-last=Ashour |editor3-first=Radwa |title=Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 |date=2008 |publisher=American University in Cairo Press |isbn=9781617975547 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fmpjEAAAQBAJ |access-date=1 March 2025}}
References
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External links
- [https://archive.alsharekh.org/AuthorArticles/16546 Archive of her work in arabic]
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Category:20th-century Arabic-language writers
Category:Qatari short story writers
Category:20th-century pseudonymous writers
Category:Pseudonymous women writers
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