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RIFAAT, Fatma Abdulla (also under pseudonym, Alifa Rifaat)
Birth date: 1930
Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt
Education:
Professional Career: Educated at the British Institute in Cairo from 1946-49. She has been
a writer since 1955.
Works
- Girls of Baurdin. Dar Al-Helal, 1995.
- Kad Lia al-Hawa. Egypt, Ministry of Culture,
1985.
- Love Made a Trap for Me. Nile Press, 1991.
- Leil Al-Shetaa Al- taweel (title means
"The Long Night of Winter and Other Stories"), Dar El-Asema,
1985.
- Distant View of a Minaret. Trans. Denys
Johnson-Davies. Quartet Books, 1983.
- Jawharah Farum. Ministry of Culture, 1978.
- Pharaoh's Jewel. Dar Al-Helal, 1991.
- Hawatandbi-Adam (short stories; title means
"Eve Returns with Adam to Paradise"), Egypt: Ministry
of Culture, 1975.
SAADAWI, Nawal el
Birth date: 1931
Birthplace: Kafr Tahla, Egypt
Education: Educated at the University of
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Professional Career: Physician and writer, Ms. Saadawi was director of health education from 1958-72 under the
Ministry of Health, Cairo. She has served on United Nations Economic Commissions
for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, West Asia, and is the co-founder of African
Women's Association for Research and Development, founded in 1977. While her
early writings are largely autobiographical, Saadawi's novels are generally
concerned with the plight of women in Egypt and of oppressed people everywhere.
Works
- Ganat wa iblis. Dar El Adab, 1992.
- The Innocence of the Devil. Methuen, 1994.
- Untha did al-untha. London: Al Saqi, 1988.
- Woman against Her Sex: A Critique of Nawal
El Saadawi, with a Reply by Nawal El Saadawi. (With Georges
Tarabishi) Trans. Basil Hatim and Elisabeth Orsini. London: Al Saqi,
1988.
- Sokout el imam. Dar El Mostakbal El Arabi,
1987.
- The Fall of the Imam. Trans. Sherif Hetata.
Methuen, 1988.
- She Has No Place in Paradise. Trans. Shirley
Eber. Methuen, 1987.
- Mozakerati fi signel nissa (autobiography).
Cairo: Dar El Moustakbal El Arabi, 1983.
- Memoirs from the Women's Prison. Trans.
Marilyn Booth. London: Women's Press, 1986.
- Mowt ma'ali el wazin. Dar El Adab, 1979.
- Death of an Ex-Minister. Trans. Shirley
Eber. Methuen, 1987.
- Oghniat el alfal el da'ereyah. Dar El Adab,
1977.
- The Circling Song. Trans. Booth. London:
Zed Books, 1989.
- El wajh el ary lilma'ra el arabeya. El
Mu'assasah Arabeya Lil Tahrir Wal Nashr,1977.
- The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World.
Trans. Sherif Hetata. London: Zed Press, 1980.
- Mawt el rajoh el waheed ala el ard. Dar
El Adab, 1976.
- God Dies by the Nile. Trans. Sherif Hetata.
London: Zed Books, 1985.
- Emra'a enda noktat el sifr. Dar El Adab,
1975.
- A Woman at Point Zero. Trans. Sherif Hetata.
London: Zed Books, 1983.
- El Ghaeb. Hayat El Kitab, 1968.
- Searching. London: Zed Books, 1989.
- Emra'atan fi emra'ah. Cairo: Dar El Kitab,
1968.
- Two Women in One. Trans. Osman Nusairi and
Jana Gough. Seal Press,1986.
- Mozakerat tabiba. Cairo: Dar El Ma'aref,
1958.
- Memoirs of a Woman Doctor. Trans. Catherine
Cobham. London: Al Saqi, 1988.
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