Umm Aktham

Fatimah Abdullah al Turki (فاطمة عبد الله التركي, born 1953) is a Qatari writer, who has written under the pseudonym Umm Aktham( أمّاأكثم ) or Sarah(سارة) in the 1970s and 1980s.

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

Works Winter of the Eskimo (1978, شتاء الاسكيمو) '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