Several Arab novelists participating in the Sharjah International Book Fair 2025 affirmed that the novel is a comprehensive human art capable of deconstructing social and cultural structures and rewriting history from a human perspective that gives voice to marginalized communities and restores forgotten identities. This was discussed during a seminar titled "The Novel as a Narrative Space for Exploring Identity, Marginalization, and Human History," which brought together Dr. Shukri al-Mabkhout, Algerian novelist Sidik Hach Ahmed, and Dr. Maryam al-Hashimi. Al-Mabkhout, winner of the 2015 Arabic Booker Prize, explained that the novel does not merely convey history but reshapes it with a new vision. Sidik Hach Ahmed, for his part, presented a creative testimony about his experience with the Saharan and African margins. Dr. Maryam al-Hashimi, meanwhile, considers the novel a literary genre capable of accommodating the complexities of identity and history, asserting that narrative creativity is a space for self-discovery.
