Alia Mamdouh’s The Passion
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
Young and Restless in Baghdad
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
The Loved Ones
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
Staff in the Department of Arabic
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
Women in Violence and War in Selected Works by Virginia Woolf and Alia Mamdouh
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
Will February Bring Literary Goodness
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
Publishing in the West: Problems and Prospects for Arab Women Writers
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
Mamdouh, Alia 1944
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”),
Arabic literature finds an audience in Europe
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
Alia Mamdouh. Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad
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
Three Percent Review
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
Echoes of Baghdad
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,
Arabic literature finds an audience in Europe
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
The Arab translator as hero
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Survival and bonding
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
New Fiction: An Excerpt from Alia Mamdouh’s IPAF-longlisted ‘The Tank’
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