Ali al-Muqri (Arabic: علي المقري) (born in Taiz) is a Yemeni novelist and writer.

He also received a special commendation from the jury of the 2015 French Prize for Arabic Literature, for his novel Ḥurma (Femme interdite), translated into French by Khaled Osman and Ola Mehanna.

[2] Al-Muqri's work has been published in Banipal magazine, The New York Times, and in French newspaper La Libération.

In 1997, he became editor-in-chief of Al-Ḥikmah, the journal of the Yemeni Writers Association.

In 2015, he fled to Paris after receiving death threats for writing sexually charged books.