Iman Humaydan “Alia Mamdouh was my great discovery — her book al-Wala3 (published in 1993). You cannot imagine how beautiful this book is.” This novel is available in French translation as La Passion and Mamdouh’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal-winning The Loved Ones is avaiable in English (trans. Marilyn Booth) and her…
Reviewed by Theola S. Labbe Sunday, August 7, 2005 NAPHTALENE A Novel of Baghdad By Alia Mamdouh Feminist. 214 pp. $23.95 BAGHDAD BURNING Girl Blog From Iraq By Riverbend Feminist. 286 pp. Paperback, $14.95 As unimaginable as it may seem now, Iraq was once known for tranquility and prosperity. If…
Alia Mamdouh Translated by Marilyn Booth The American University in Cairo Press, 2006 Pp. 279 In this novel, Alia Mamdouh jumps out of her native Iraq, where her earlier novel “Mothballs” was set, into the Iraqi diaspora which grew from Europe to North America as a result of repression, sanctions…
Publication details for Dr Abir Hamdar 2010 Hamdar, Abir 'Female Physical Illness and Disability in Arab Women's Writing', Feminist Theory: Special Issue on Arab Feminisms 11, pp. 189-204 •Publication type: Journal papers: academic •ISSN/ISBN: 1464-7001, 1741-2773 •DOI: 10.1177/1464700110366816 •View online: Online version Abstract This article focuses on the representation of…
A doctoral thesis presented by Alia Mahmood Salman University of Manouba/ Tunis 2012 My thesis was a discussion of women in violence and war in the writing of Virginia Woolf and Alia Mamdouh. I in particular focused through a close textual reading to their novels to examine the formation and…
The first month of the new year is over and despite my being a little older, a bit more decrepit, and my books still being stored in packing boxes waiting for the new room with the wonderful bookshelves, I was fortunate to read some rather good books. Specifically I’d like…
By By Amal Amireh "Arabic is a controversial language," Edward Said was once told. This intriguing statement was made to him by a New York publisher who offered it as an explanation for his turning down the Arabic titles that Said recommended for possible translation and publication. The awarding of…
PERSONAL: Born 1944, in Baghdad, Iraq. Education: Mustansariya University, Baghdad, Iraq, B.A., 1971. ADDRESSES: Home—Paris, France. CAREER: Writer, editor. Majallat Al Ulum ("Magazine of Sciences"), Beirut, Lebanon, editor, 1972-73; Majallat Al-Fikr al-Mu'asir ("Magazine of Modern Thought"), Beirut, editor, 1973-75; Al-Rasid ("The Register," a weekly newspaper), Baghdad, Iraq, editor-in-chief, 1970-1982; Majallat…
Arab authors were the guests of honor at the world's biggest book fair, in Frankfurt this fall. By Isabelle de Pommereau, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor / December 29, 2004 FRANKFURT Iraqi novelist Alia Mamdouh has a message for the West: "How can you expect me, an Iraqi, whose…
Alia Mamdouh. Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad. Peter Theroux, tr. Helene Cixous, foreword. F. A. Haidar, afterword. New York. Feminist Press at CUNY. 2005. viii + 214 pages. $23.95. ISBN 1 -55861-492-3 THERE ARE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS in Naphtalene, which relates the story of a nine-year-old girl named Huda growing into…
Iqbal Al-Qazwini, author of Zubaida’s Window, writes a story that reflects a life of her own. She now lives in East Berlin and is an Iraqi Exile herself, which brings a heightened creditability to the first novel that she has written. As an active member of the Iraqi Women’s League,…
MEGAN MARZ OCTOBER 4, 2005 PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 24, 2005 Naphtalene, the first novel by an Iraqi woman to be published in the United States, has taken a long time to arrive here. A small Cairo press first published Alia Mamdouh’s second novel in 1986, just a few years after…
Arab authors were the guests of honor at the world's biggest book fair, in Frankfurt this fall. December 29, 2004 By Isabelle de Pommereau Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor FRANKFURT Iraqi novelist Alia Mamdouh has a message for the West: "How can you expect me, an Iraqi, whose country…
By Ferial J Ghazoul Al-Mahboubat (The Loved Ones), Alia Mamdouh, London and Beirut: Dar Al-Saqi, 2003. pp285 The most recent novel by the well-known Iraqi novelist and short story writer, Alia Mamdouh, is entitled Al-Mahboubat, which can be translated as "The Loved Ones" even though the Arabic is more specific…
Alia Mamdouh’s The Tank has been longlisted for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The novel follows four decades of exile, when the narrator imagines her return to Iraq: Chapter One: First Snap of the Clapperboard By Alia Mamdouh, translated by Hend Saeed Mr. Samim, surname unknown Much as…
