Chronicle of a revolution in between literature and journalism, conservative claims and progressive struggles : revolution Bushrā al-Maqṭarī’s literary articles

Bushra al-Maqtari, a Yemeni journalist and writer, is the author of a particular genre: literary article. A kind of work which is in between a short story and a journalistic article. She kept writing during the events of the Youth Revolution (2011), denouncing the abuses of the authority and the actions of the so called “thieves of Yemeni revolutions” that is: the army, the political parties, the tribes and the religious movements. Using the maqala adabiyya (literary article), al-Maqtari makes a kind of revolution in the Yemeni literature, restoring an almost forgotten literary genre.