| Laila Abdullah | |
| Native Name: | ليلة عبدالله |
| Native Name Lang: | Ar |
| Birth Date: | 1982 (39-40 years) |
| Occupation: | Writer, poet, and critic |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Notable Works: | Aimless Silence, Farho's Notebooks |
| Pseudonym: | Laila Al Balooshi |
Laila Abdullah (Arabic: ليلة عبدالله) (born 1982) is an Omani writer, poet, and critic living in the UAE.[1] [2] She is known for her novel revolving upon children's life in war, Farho's Notebooks. [3]
Abdullah used to write a blog titled Breathing Slowly. and a weekly column in some Omani and Arab newspapers including Emirati and Omani newspapers AlRoeya, and London newspaper Al-Arab.
She has a number of published works including poetry, children literature, literary studies, and short story collections, and her poetical works were translated into several languages including Polish and Spanish.[4]
She started her career off with free verse poetry, but later on she leaned more towards storytelling.
| Absurd Silence | Her Ninth Heart | |
| Farho's Notebooks | Sofa, a Book, a Cup of Coffee | |
| Children's Literature in the UAE | Presumed Love Letters between Henry Miller and Annaise Nin | |
| The Qualms of the World Chamber | My Storytelling Creatures |
Talib Al-Rafai expressed in his article how Laila Abdullah tends to show knowledge upon a novel's dimension, and recognizing the elements of a fiction scene, delivering portrayals of Arab and Western Citizens through the landscape she expresses in the novel.[8]
Additionally, a review in Independent Arabia discusses how in Farho's Notebooks, Abdullah's narrative transfers through different forms of storytelling, one that is inclined towards the beginning, becoming heavy throughout the details upon the conflict of the novel, transferring to an ordinary form eventually to describe the course of a normal life.