# Muhammad Aziz Arfaj

Muhammad Aziz Al-Arfaj is a Saudi writer, poet and journalist.

## Bioghraphy

He was born on 15 October 1980 in the city of Riyadh and raised there after his father moved for a long period of time from Khab Al-Muraydisiyah, one of the villages adjacent to the city of Buraidah in Al-Qassim region, north of Najd, and his marriage to his mother, who belongs to the Banu Al-Asmar tribe in Asir, southern Saudi Arabia.
His father, who came from a rural family interested in agriculture, was an inspector and advisor in the Saudi Ministry of Interior after completing his university education at the College of Sharia in Riyadh. He was a popular poet, oral tale narrator, memorizer of lengthy Arabic anecdotes, and a lover of history, while his mother, who was also from a mountainous environment, was concerned with in agriculture as well, an abyss of collecting intangible heritage, and saying folk poetry.
The writer Muhammad Arfaj is a researcher in Nabati poetry, al-Humayni poetry, al-Hourani poetry, folklore, and popular poetry in the Arab world. He writes in Al-Riyadh newspaper in particular and in many Arab and international newspapers and has published many books, novels and books. The most prominent of them is the novel "The Top Floor" and the book "Popular Heritage In The Arab Narrative".
In 2003, he moved from the city of Riyadh to the city of Aden in Yemen to work for several years in the diplomatic corps, and his name was closely associated with the Yemeni cultural scene through his work for years during which he was able to approach Yemeni heritage and literature, and this crystallized in the form of dozens of studies that he wrote On Yemeni literature and the Humayni poetry in particular, and a novel titled "The Top Floor" was published for him, which was printed in Beirut, its events take place in the Yemeni environment.
In Yemen, he made contributions to the Hamini Nabatean relations between the Humayni and Nabati poetry and he is also the first to discover the original homeland of Bani Hilal, the owners of the Hilali biography.
Then he submitted his resignation from working in the Saudi diplomatic corps and returned to Riyadh to be a member of the Literary Club in Riyadh. He resided in the city of Chicago in the United States of America, and established the Spiritual Cultural Forum there before returning again to Riyadh and settling there.

## His books
### Poetry

| Title | Language | Year | Pages | ISBN |
| The Seasons – a Divan of Free Poetry. | Arabic | 2016 | | |
| Rural Najd – A Divan of Nabati Poetry. | Arabic | 2020 | | |
| The Land of Yemen – A Divan of Humayni's Poetry | Arabic | | | |
| Clouds of Love: A Divan of Nabati Poetry. | Arabic | 2020 | 141 | ISBN 978-603-8324-78-3 |

### Short story

| Title | Language | Publisher | Year | Pages | ISBN | OCLC Number |
| Shivers between crying and terror. | Arabic | Al-intishar Alarabi Foundation | 2018 | 46 | ISBN 9789953931456, 9953931453 | 1141735673 |
| Wednesday Troubles | Arabic | | 2016 | 61 | ISBN 9786144048566 | |
| And She Came Back After An Absence. | Arabic | | 2018 | | | |
| A Piece Of Ice. | Arabic | | 2019 | | | |

### Novel

| Title | Language | Publisher | Year | Pages |
| The Top Floor. | Arabic | Dar Al-Gawon | 2011 | 128 |

### Children's literature and arts

| Title | Language | Publisher | Year | Pages | ISBN | OCLC Number |
| Saqt Allewa: a novel for boys. | Arabic | Hail Literary and Cultural Club | 2017 | 71 | ISBN 9786039086932, 6039086939 | 1193218981 |
| Baby Feather Series. | Arabic | | | | | |

### Women's culture and arts

| Title | Language | Year | ISBN |
| A Woman's Feelings (Part One) Early life, poets, readings, dialogues. | Arabic | 2016 | ISBN 978-603-8301-12-8 |
| A Woman's Feelings (Part Two) Formation Sculpture Orgami | Arabic | 2020 | ISBN 978-603-8301-13-5 |

### Literature letters

| Title | Language | Year |
| From Ali Saleh to Mr. Trump. | Arabic | 2020 |
| To whom do you leave your son, father?. | Arabic | 2020 |

### Literary and intellectual studies

| Title | Language | Publisher | Year | Pages | ISBN | OCLC Number |
| Myths of the Islamic Awakening: Studies | Arabic | Arwiqah Foundation for Studies, Translation and Publishing: Ruya Center for Studies | 2019 | 220 | ISBN 9789777971898, 9777971893, 9789777971997, 9777971990 | 1104685524 |
| Folk tale and oral poetry in theatre, story and novel: Studies. | Arabic | Najran Literary and Cultural Club | 2019 | 190 | ISBN 9789777972123, 9777972121 | 1122542928 |
| The roots of Nabati poetry in the art of chanting and weights and the rooting of Nabati poetry and the stages of its development and its influence by Hamini and the Sufi school. | Arabic | Hamalil Foundation for Media | 2015 | | ISBN 9789948184553, 9948184556 | 1291960392 |
| Folklore in the Arab narrative. | Arabic | The Arabic Magazine. | 2013 | | ISBN 978-603-8138-53-3 | 1049184190 |
| Captain of the investigations of folk arts in the Arab Gulf. | Arabic | | 2014 | 68 | | |
| Nabati Poetry Roots. | Arabic | Hamalil Foundation for Media | 2015 | 220 | | |

### Co-author

| Title | Language | Year | Note |
| Sultan of Songs and difficult departure. | Arabic | 2013 | with other Arab writers. |
| Abdul Karim Al -Jahiman .. Echoes of departure. | Arabic | 2014 | with other Saudi writers. |
| Narratives of Khaled Al-Youssef | Arabic | 2020 | with other Arab writers. |