1. Manal al-Sheikh
(Articles/Author)

...h is from Nineveh in northern Iraq, and has a degree in English translation from the College of Arts at Mosul University. She has freelanced for a number of local newspapers, as well as the She'riat M...

2. Naji Oueijan
(Articles/Author)

...d Secondary School, Achrafieh. He recieved his BA and Ma in English Language and Literature from the Lebanese University in 1977 and 1979. He recieved his PhD degree in English Literature from Baylor ...

3. Youssef Ziedan
(Articles/Author)

...ef Ziedan was born in upper Egypt in 1958 and at the age of 8 moved to Alexandria, where he later entered the university to study philosophy. His academic work has been focused on Sufism and other bra...

4. Abdellah Taïa
(Articles/Author)

... published in Morocco. He has lived in Paris for the last eight years after studying French literature at the University of Rabat. His short stories and novels (Mon Maroc...

5. Abdelwahab Meddeb
(Articles/Author)

...l French-language literary journal, Dédale and is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Paris X in Nanterre. In 2005, he curated the exhibition "West by East&q...

6. informal biography
(Articles/Author)

...ool system when private religious schools were not permitted in the country any more. Later, she attended the University of Latakia’s foreign literature program and graduated in 1984 with a degr...

7. Sahar el-Mougy
(Articles/Author)

...Manam Daria Elahy Saghira Noon El Mougy is a lecturer of English Literature at Cairo University. She is also a presenter on Radio Cairo, where she has a show dedicated to writ...

8. Amal Amarzooq
(Articles/Author)

Amal Amarzooq Country: Bahrain DOB: Books: Amal Amarzzoq is a student at Kingdom University and is studying mass communications and public relations. She is a journalist working for a

9. Najah Awadallah
(Articles/Author)

... high school diploma in Damascus, Syria in 1987, and a Masters in Journalism and Mass Communications at Sofia University in Bulgaria, 1993. She has worked as a Program Designer for the Palestinian Tel...

10. Nazik al-Malaika
(Articles/Author)

...raveled to the United States to study and received a Master's degree in comparative literature from Wisconsin University. In 1947, al-Malaika published her first collectio...

11. Heads Ripe for Plucking
(Articles/Book)

... Details: Author: Mahmoud al-Wardani. Publisher: American University in Cairo Press ISBN: 978 977 416 188 9. Awards: Ple...

12. Morning and Evening Talk
(Articles/Book)

... Details: Author: Naguib Mahfouz Publisher: American University in Cairo Press ISBN: 978 977 416 099 8. Awards: Ple...

13. Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
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... Details: Author: Mahmoud Darwish Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 978-0-520-08768-2. Awards...

14. Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales
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... Details: Author: Ibrahim Muhawi & Sharif Kanaana Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 978-0-520-06292-4. Awards...

15. Atef Abu Seif
(Articles/Author)

...liya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in1973. He attended school in Gaza. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Birzeit and a masters' degree from Bradford and he received his Ph.D from It...

16. Milton Hatoum
(Articles/Author)

... Biography: Milton Hatoum was born in Manaus, Brazil in 1952. He has taught at the University of Amazonas and University of California (Berkeley). ...

17. Mayselun Hadi
(Articles/Author)

... Mayselun Hadi was born in 1954 in Baghdad. She graduated in Management and Economics from Baghdad University. Since her first collection of short stories Al-Shakhs al-Thalith [The Third Pe...

18. Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology
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...etails: Author: Shakir Mustafa (ed.) Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 978-0-8156-0902-5. Awards: Please enter...

19. Khalid Kishtainy
(Articles/Author)

... Khalid Kishtainy was born in Baghdad in 1929. He trained as a lawyer and an artist. He graduated from University of Baghdad, Faculty of Law in 1953 and from the Institute of Fine Arts, Paintin...

20. Youssef Abd al-Aziz
(Articles/Author)

...: Youssef Abd al-Aziz was born in Beit Inan near Jerusalem in 1956, and graduated from the Arab University of Beirut in 1986. Abd-al-Aziz taught in UNRWA schools in Jordan where he curre...

21. Mohammad H Ghanaiem
(Articles/Author)

... Mohammad H Ghanaiem was born in 1957 in Baqa El-Gharbiya in the Meshlash area. He studied at Tel Aviv University and worked for many years as a journalist. 1984-1991 he was editor of Mefgash H...

22. Anas al-Ayla
(Articles/Author)

... Biography: Anas al-Ayla was born in 1975 in Qalqiliya. He graduated from Birzeit University with a degree in Arabic and a diploma in journalism in 1998. He lives in Ramall...

23. Samer Abu Hawwash
(Articles/Author)

...ished poetry and articles in various Lebanese newspapers and magazines.He graduated in 1996 from the Lebanese University of Journalism and Communication. He has published two collections of his own po...

24. Abd al-Aziz al-Maqalih
(Articles/Author)

...ng from comprehensive backwardness. He put his efforts into strengthening the role of education especially at university level; he participated in the establishment of the University of Sana'a, of whi...

25. Sharif Elmusa
(Articles/Author)

...ted, and contributed to, the anthology, Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry, first issued by Utah University Press in 1988, and then re-issued in 1999 in paperback edition by Interlink Boo...

26. Colette Khoury
(Articles/Author)

...who is also the granddaughter of former Syrian Prime Minister Faris al-Khoury. Khoury graduated from Damascus University with a bachelor's degree in French literature and she received a diploma from t...

27. Sonallah Ibrahim
(Articles/Author)

... Biography: Sonallah Ibrahim was born in 1937. After studying law and drama at Cairo University, he became a journalist in Cairo until his arrest and imprisonment in 1959 as a...

28. Fadwa Tuqan
(Articles/Author)

...e Palestinians' Jerusalem Award for Culture and Art in 1990; and served on the board of trustees for An-Najah University in Nablus. Excerpted from Lawrence Joffe's obitua...

29. Abderrahman El Fathi
(Articles/Author)

...ography: Abderrahman El Fathi (Tetuán, 1964) is a professor of Spanish literature at the University of Abdelmalek Essaâdi in Tetuán. He is the author of several books...

30. Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
(Articles/Book)

... Details: Author: Abdelfattah Kilito Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 978-0-8156-3191-0 . Awards: Please ente...