Umm Al-Duwais

What begins as a literary flirtation at a folklore conference slowly turns into something far darker: in “Umm Al-Duwais”, Yemeni writer Hamid Oqabi reimagines one of the Gulf’s most haunting myths as an unsettling meditation on desire, beauty, exile, death, and seduction.
Set between Emirati folklore and contemporary loneliness, the story asks a dangerous question: What if the monster is not horror itself — but the irresistible beauty of surrender?
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
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