{"id":2913,"date":"2009-02-24T15:29:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T15:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2009-02-24T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T15:29:04","slug":"2009-2-24-saudi-lit-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2913","title":{"rendered":"Saudi lit"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Review at The National has a piece on the flourishing<\/a> of the Saudi lit scene, in part spurred by the international success of “Banaat Riyadh” (“Girls of Riyadh”).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The last few years have witnessed what one critic has called a tsunami of Saudi writing: some 50 to 100 novels published each year, up from five to 10 in years past. That\u2019s partly due to the 2007 release of Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea, a diaristic account of four upper-class young women and their illicit love affairs, set here in the capital. Trashy? Maybe. But also a rare look into a once-forbidden realm of experience, and an undeniable catalyst.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not good literature,\u201d Ahmed says. \u201cBut it did create a lot of controversy and encouraged people to write their own novels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Review at The National has a piece on the flourishing<\/a> of the Saudi lit scene, in part spurred by the international success of “Banaat Riyadh” (“Girls of Riyadh”).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The last few years have witnessed what one critic has called a tsunami of Saudi writing: some 50 to 100 novels published each year, up from five to 10 in years past. That\u2019s partly due to the 2007 release of Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea, a diaristic account of four upper-class young women and their illicit love affairs, set here in the capital. Trashy? Maybe. But also a rare look into a once-forbidden realm of experience, and an undeniable catalyst.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not good literature,\u201d Ahmed says. \u201cBut it did create a lot of controversy and encouraged people to write their own novels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}