The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. February 19, 2009 Sudanese Novelist Al-Tayeb Saleh Dies at 80 ------------------------------------------- And the Sudanese novelist Al-Tayeb Saleh has died at the age of eighty. He was considered one of the Arab world’s top novelists, with books including the 1966 classic The Season of Migration to the North. .