Jokha Al-Harthi is an Omani writer and academic. She was educated in Oman and in the United Kingdom. She received her PhD in classical Arabic literature from Edinburgh University, and is currently an associate professor in the Arabic department at Sultan Qaboos University. Her work has been translated into many languages, including Serbian, Korean, Italian, English and German. In 2016, she won the Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature for her novel Narinjah (Bitter Orange) in 2016. She will speak at the Shaikh Ebrahim Centre about “Writing What Vanishes.”
Where memory is the house of culture and knowledge; where the original council, separated by a cultural sidewalk that connects Muharraq with the intellectuals and writers of the world. The house itself, located at the heart of the city, opens its doors to cultural production in the fields of thought, literature, politics, philosophy, culture and art.
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