Muhammad al-Gharbi Amran (born 1958) is a Yemeni short story writer, novelist and politician.
[1] He was born in Dhamar and studied history at university, obtaining a master's degree in the subject.
[2] His stories have been translated into English and Italian, and have featured in foreign-language anthologies such as Oranges in the Sun (2007) and Perle dello Yemen (2009).
The novel deals with vexing social problems like extremism and the oppression of women in Yemeni society.
[3] al-Gharbi Amran heads a Yemeni literary club called el-Maqah.