Taher Ahmed Al-Zahrani

Novelist, Short-Story Writer and Publisher

Taher Ahmed Al-Zahrani is a Saudi novelist and short-story writer, born in Jeddah in 1978 and a graduate of the College of Arts and Humanities at King Abdulaziz University. His novel Janji appeared in 2007 and was translated into English in 2009; Nahw al-Janoub (2010) was adapted into a feature film released in 2017. His other work includes the story collection Al-Sandaqa, and the novels Atfal al-Sabeel, Al-Mikaniki and Faqd. He served as a judge in the Iqra competition in 2014 and 2015, founded the Inthiyal narrative-writing initiative in 2019 — which produced ten published novels — and established the digital publishing house Rawa in 2023.