“What we live and what lives inside us.”― Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies Literature in Arabic has contributed well- enough to modern world literature. The Arabic novel is now a force to reckon with. Some of the greatest voices in Arabic literature include Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel laureate), Elias Khoury, Taha Hussein, Hoda Barakat, and Abbas Muhammad Akkad. Writers …