Under the patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein, may God protect him,

The Amman International Book Fair took place from September 2 to October 4, 2025. As part of the cultural program held at the International Exhibition Hall in Amman, Professor Dr. Montaha Taha Al-Harahsheh, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University, participated in the fifth scientific seminar entitled: "Jordanian Literature in a Quarter Century," where she presented a research paper entitled:

"The Jordanian Novel in a Quarter Century: Vision and Extension."

In her paper, Dr. Al-Harahsheh addressed the development of the Jordanian novel through study and analysis, highlighting the authentic novel that emerged silently from the heart of society, revealing its stages of development and its new and diverse features, and clarifying the identity of the place in it. She also discussed its reality between the silence of thought and the outspokenness of creativity, and the constraints and challenges it faced. Then, she presented its position within the course of the Arabic novel, and paused at the most prominent aspects of experimentation in it. She affirmed that the course of the Jordanian novel, with its transformations and transgressions, proves that it did not come about by chance, nor was it born suddenly, but rather it is the product of a long experience over an extended period, which gave it the courage to speak out about the novelistic product within the map of Arab creativity, given what it has come to represent in terms of intellectual extension that benefited from the accumulation of the past, to settle in the present with steadfastness and confidence.

At the conclusion of her intervention, Dr. Al-Harahsheh said: The Jordanian novel, thanks to the will, and despite the constraints it faced in its journey, was able to express the Jordanian reality in its various social, political, cultural, historical, and human manifestations, and to present its common national, intellectual, and political issues, such as: the Palestinian issue, the Gulf War, the issue of asylum, cultural identity, and the conflict between East and West. It also contributed to the consolidation of novel writing as a modern literary genre in the Arab heritage, and to the creation of distinctive Jordanian writing that embodies local specificity in form and content, while striving to keep pace with Western precedence in this field, and to express some of the self-concerns with a general human dimension.

At the conclusion of the seminar, the head of the Cultural Committee, Dr. Jaafar Al-Oqaili, presented a shield of participation to Dr. Montaha Al-Harahsheh, in recognition of her efforts in enriching the cultural program of the Amman International Book Fair in its twenty-fourth session for the year 2025.