Running to 2500 pages in the original version, Abdalrachman Munif's five-volume novel cycle Cities of Salt is one of the cornerstones of Arab literature and a subversive chronicle of Saudi Arabia. Angela Schader introduces the novel cycle and publication of the final volume, Variations on Night and Day
Sulaiman Addonia lived and studied in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. His novel on the theme of forbidden love is set against the backdrop of the Saudi port of Jeddah. Rasha Khayat met up with the author in Hamburg