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The Global Arabic Encyclopedia (1990-2025)
Founder and Editor-in-chief of the First Edition of The Global Arabic Encyclopedia in 30 Fine Volumes. The author initiated the proposal of producing a grand general encyclopedia in the Arabic language, and it was financed by late Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz. For decades from 1990 till 2025, Ahmed Alshuwaikhat was the Director General of the enterprise. Besides, he was the Editor-In-Chief of the founding edition (1990-1996) and the early digital version (2002).
The Global Arabic Encyclopedia is the largest contemporary encyclopedic targeting the general readers. It includes more than 24,000 main titles and more than 150,000 subtitles and some 15,000 images and maps, covering different disciplines of knowledge. The print work comprises 30 volumes of 17,000 pages of more than 10 million words in total, average volume size is 566 pages. More than 1,000 institutions, researchers, writers, translators, editors, proofreaders, technicians, and consultants from Saudi Arabia and the Arab World and abroad contributed.
The project has been appraised by UNESCO as well as intellectuals and educators.
THE AMERICAN WHO READ GILGAMESH (2022)-In Arabic
“The American Who Read Gilgamesh” is the Arabic origin of “Th American Translator”. The novel is long-listed for the Katar Prize for Arabic Novel 2023.
SEA OF LIBRA (2023)-In Arabic
This novel is a voyage of intricate plot from the world of the sea, labor on traditional boats, pearl diving and the famous storm of the ship disaster of 1925 in the Gulf region to modern life and rapidly changing society after the discovery if oil in 1930’s. The book depicts the life and dilemma of journalist Zuhair bin Sayyar.
He contemplates doubt of reality and the value of myths of his changing town on the Saudi coastal coast. He has been writing a novel of honor and sweet nostalgia on the traditional life of the town, or so he thinks. But he has to abandon research and writing as he discovers a shocking story of a dyre scum regarding selling the property of the traditional fisheries in the wake of modernization after the production of oil. He commits to dig into the matter yet to discover more about the atrocities ensued by greed and corruption. He witnesses dramatic change in the environment and shifts in societal values and structure of landscape due to the flurry of real states investment.
POMEGRANATE STREAM (2002)- In Arabic
This novella is a depiction of the life of sea men and farmers of a costal town in the late 1800’s before the drastic changes has taken place due to the production of oil and fast modernization. It is the story of the mayor of the town who suffers loneliness and seclude himself in a secrets spot from the eyes of the public away near by a stream with inside pomegranate tree. He suffers a mix of feeling due to his Galatians over the betrayal of his wife, the advent of zealot religious fanatics and chaos because of lack of control. A mix of the absurd, the real, and the dynamics of power.