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Arabic literature for children and young adults is a subgenre of modern Arabic literature, written in Arabic by writers from various Arab countries and the Arab diaspora.

Modern developments
In her study "Arabic Children's Literature Today: Determining Factors and Tendencies", Petra Dünges, author and translator from Arabic into German, gave an overview of fiction for Arab children with a focus on books published between 1990 and 2010. Using some examples of modern illustrated children's books, comics, and manga, she noted that the diversity of children's literature has increased in the changing modern Arab society. She also noticed a growing demand for stories and adequate illustrations that take children seriously as readers. She concluded that Arabic children's literature makes an important contribution to the development of society and is crucial in keeping Arab culture and the Arabic language alive.

Major countries and writers
Algeria:

Egypt:

Lebanon:

The Iraqi writer Fadhil Abbas al-Ka'bi (فاضل عباس الكعبي; born 1955) is a prolific author of children's literature and childhood studies. From 1978, he turned to journalism and was appointed in various positions, including head of the Children's Literature Association in Iraq from its founding in 1993 until 2000. He emerged in the 1990s as a literary critic, writer and researcher specializing in Arabic children's literature, theater and culture. He received many awards, certificates of appreciation and honorary doctorates from several institutions for his literary and journalistic career.

Jordanian writer Haya Saleh Wild Poppies (2023)

Morocco

Palestine:

The Palestinian writer Sonia Nimr (سونيا نمر; born 1955) is a storyteller, translator, ethnographer and academic. She writes for children and youth in Arabic and English, and relates folk-tales in colloquial Arabic. Nimr is the winner of the 2014 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature for Best Young Adult Book for her work Extraordinary Journeys to Unknown Places.

Writing in both English and Arabic, Nimr views her writing as a mission on behalf of Palestinian children, as well as for all children living in conflict zones. She has expressed her commitment "to exercising their imagination and keeping them in touch with their cultural heritage". In her work on folk tales, Nimr tries to "rewrite" the stories for children, as they were originally intended for adults, while "keeping the spirit, the magic." Her use of colloquial language in her writing caused some controversy, as publishers want to sell books in multiple markets in the Arabic-speaking world, and Standard Arabic is the form generally used in written form.

Taghreed Najjar (Arabic:تغريد النجار) (born 28 September 1951) is a Palestinian-Jordanian writer and publisher. She is the writer of over 50 Arabic children and young adults books. Some of her books were translated and published in different languages including English, Swedish, Turkish and French. She is the founder of Al Salwa Publishing House. Over the years, Al Najjar won several literary awards and in 2017 she was shortlisted for the Etisalat Children's Literature Award and the Sheikh Zayed Award. She is a member of the Jordanian Writer's Association.

In Sudan, modern literature for children and young adults has been written, among others, by authors and illustrators such as Abdel-Ghani Karamallah and Salah El-Mur. Also, the poet Mahmoud Sharif published a collection of short stories for children entitled Zeinab and the Mango Tree. Another book for children called Kadisa (Sudanese expression for cat) was written in 2017 by Sudanese-American elementary teacher Rasha Hamid and illustrated by Sharhabil Ahmed, a well-known Sudanese musician and graphic artist.

In the 1950s and up to the mid-1990s, the Ministry of Education published comics magazines such as Al-Sabyan (Boy's Journal), Maryud and Sabah (Morning) in order to develop children's literacy. But because of diminishing support, the numbers of such magazines and children's books decreased from 30.000 copies a week of the most popular magazine to a much lower number of such publications.

In the 21st century, Sudanese comic strips and graphic storytelling have been enjoying a growing audience. They are mainly published on social media, but also in the form of magazines or during national comic competitions.

Syrian writer Maria Dadouch (Arabic: ماريا دعدوش; born 1970 in Damascus, Syria) is a prolific literary writer, screenwriter and novelist. She has written both novels for young adults as well as numerous books for children. Her work has been honored with several awards for Arabic literature, including the Katara Prize for young adult novels. Some of her books, such as Omar and Oliver, The Fly Over the Pond and The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Mug With a Lid have been published in English.

Tunisia: Aḫḍar, Fāṭima al-. الكتابة للطفل.تجربتي في الكتابة للطفل: شهادات من مؤلفين تونسيين الكتابة للطفل [Writing for the Child. My Experiences in Writing for the Child: Testimonials from Tunesian Authors]. Tunis, 2005. pp. 97–103

Works of nonfiction
Ramadan: The Holy Month of Fasting

Literature

 * Alqudsi-Ghabra, Taghreed. 1989. The History of Published Arabic Children’s Literature as Reflected in the Collections of Three Publishers in Egypt, 1912-1986. University of Texas at Austin Dissertation.
 * Alqudsi-Ghabra, Taghreed. “Arabic Children's Literature.” International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. 2nd ed. Ed. Peter Hunt. London: Routledge, 2004. 954–59.
 * Weingart, Sibylle. Review of Le Poussin n’est pas un chien: quarante ans de création arabe en littérature pour la jeunesse reflet et projet de sociétés Egypte Syrie Liban by Mathilde Chèvre. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press). 2016, Vol. 54 Issue 3, pp. 66-67, ISSN 1918-6983
 * Hanada, T. T., Kreidieh, S., & Baroudi, S. (2020). Arabic children's literature: Glitzy production, disciplinary content. Issues in Educational Research, 30(1), 323-344.
 * Weingart, Sibylle. Review of Le Poussin n’est pas un chien: quarante ans de création arabe en littérature pour la jeunesse reflet et projet de sociétés Egypte Syrie Liban by Mathilde Chèvre. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press). 2016, Vol. 54 Issue 3, pp. 66-67, ISSN 1918-6983
 * Hanada, T. T., Kreidieh, S., & Baroudi, S. (2020). Arabic children's literature: Glitzy production, disciplinary content. Issues in Educational Research, 30(1), 323-344.
 * Hanada, T. T., Kreidieh, S., & Baroudi, S. (2020). Arabic children's literature: Glitzy production, disciplinary content. Issues in Educational Research, 30(1), 323-344.