Buthaina Khidir Mekki (Arabic: بثينة خضر مكي; born in Shendi, Sudan) is a Sudanese novelist and short story writer.
Mekki has published five novels and several collections of short stories in her native Arabic, some of which have been translated into English, French, and German.
Further, she is a member of the Arab Writers Union and the director of the Buthina Khidir Mekki Center for Culture and Enlightenment in Khartoum.
[2][1] According to Asma Mohamed Abdel Halim, a human rights activist and associate professor at the Department of Women's and Gender Studies of the University of Toledo in the U.S., Mekki is a prominent writer of the generation following the first Sudanese woman novelist, Malkat al-Dar Muhammad.
Abdel Hamid called Mekki an "icon of the Sudanese feminist novel, and intellectuals see her as prolific, unique in style, combining political, social, and psychological literature."
These stories present literary accounts of conflict and fighting in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Somalia, and Sudan.