Majdi Dueibis is a Jordanian novelist and short story writer, born in 1968. He worked as a telecommunications engineer and is a retired brigadier general from the Royal Jordanian Air Force. He emerged as a literary figure in the late 2010s, publishing his debut novel, *Al-Wizr al-Malih* (“The Salty Burden”), in 2018—a work for which he won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel.