Umm Aktham

In her writing, she sometimes attacked Arabic society for its disadvantages to women, but did not aspire a western liberal model.^[1][3] Critics describe how her writing highlights contradictions and contrasts, between reality and imagination, internal and external worlds, life and death, riches and poverty.^[4][5]

• Winter of the Eskimo (1978, شتاء الاسكيمو)^[6]
• 'Yawmiyat fi-l-manfa (يوميات في المنفى, Memoirs in exile)', in Layla Salih, ed., Adab al-mar ah fi al-Jazirah wa al-Khalij al-Arabi(Women's literature at the Arabian peninsula and Arabian gulf), 1983, pp. 266–74^[4]