Lebanon

ACCAD, Evelyne

Birth date: October 10, 1943
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
Education:
Professional Career:

Works

• Wounding Words : A Woman's Journal in Tunisia. Trans. Cynthia T. Hahn. 1997. Trans. of Blessures des mots : journal de Tunisie.
• The Excised : A Novel. May 1994. Trans. of L'Excisee. 1989?
• Sexuality and War : Literary Masks of the Middle East. Trans. of Des femmes, des hommes et la guerre : fiction et râealitâe au Proche-Orient.
• Women in the Moslem World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.

ADNAN, Etel

Birth date: February 25, 1925
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
Education:
Professional Career: Writer

Works

• There. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1996.
• Of Cities and Women: Letters to Fawwaz. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1993.
• Paris, When It's Naked. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1993.
• The Spring Flowers Own & The Manifestations of the Voyage. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1990.
• Journey to Mt. Tamalpais. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1986.
• The Indian Never Had a Horse, and Other Poems. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1985.
• Pablo Neruda Is a Banana Tree. Lisbon: Da Almeida, 1982.
• From A to Z. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1982.
• L'Apocalypse Arabe. Paris: Editions Papyrus, 1980.
          The Arab Apocalypse. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1989.
• Sitt Marie Rose. Paris: Editions des femmes, 1978.
          Sitt Marie Rose. Trans. Georgina Kleege. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1982.
• Five Senses for One Death. New York: The Smith, 1971.
• Moonshots. Beirut, 1966.

AGHA MALAK, Ezza

Birth date: 1942
Birthplace:
Education:
Professional Career: Professor of linguistics and french literature in a lebanese university.

Works

• Entre deux battements de temps. 1991.
• Quand les larmes seront pleurees. 1991.
• Migration. 1985.

AL-SHAYKH, Hanan

Birth date: November 12, 1945
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
Education: Attended American College for Girls in Cairo, 1966.
Professional Career: Currenly lives in England where she is a writer and journalist.

Works

• I sweep the sun off rooftops: stories. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
• Beirut blues. Trans. Catherine Cobham. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
• Women of Sand and Myrr. Trans. Catherine Cobham. Quartet, 1991.
• The Story of Zahra. Trans. Peter Ford. Quartet, 1986.

CHERNOFF, Maxine

Birth date: February 24, 1952
Birthplace: United States of America
Education:
Professional Career: University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, lecturer in English, 1977-80; Columbia College, Chicago, instructor, 1978-85; Truman College, Chicago, associate professor of English, 1980-94; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, adjunct associate professor, 1990-94; San Francisco State University, San Francisco, associate professor of creative writing, 1994--. Poetry Center, president and member of board of directors, 1982-87; Bard College, fellow of Simon's Rock. Illinois Arts Council, member of literature panel, 1981-83.

Works

• American Heaven. Coffee House Press, 1996.
• Back to the Past (With Ethel Tiersky). Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1994.
• Birthplaces of Ideas (With Tiersky). Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1994.
• It's Colossal (With Tiersky). Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1994.
• Sun and Games (With Tiersky). Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1994.
• Signs of Devotion. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
• Plain Grief. Summit Books, 1991.
• Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. ACP, 1990.
• Bop. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1987.
• A Vegetable Emergency. Beyond Baroque Foundation, 1977.
• Utopia TV Store. Yellow Press, 1979.
• New Faces of 1952. Ithaca House, 1985.
• Japan. Avenue B, 1988.

GEBEYLI, Clarie

Birth date: 1935
Birthplace:
Education:
Professional Career:

Works

• La Mise a jour. 1980.
• Memorial d'exil. 1975.
• Poesies latentes. 1968.

TUENI, Nadia (Hamade)

Birth date: July 8, 1935 (died June 20, 1983)
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
Education: Was educated at French schools in Athens, where her father was Lebanon's diplomatic representative.
Professional Career: She wrote chiefly in French due to her educational background. Her first collection of poems, Les Textes blonds, was published in 1963, and in 1965 another collection won the Said Aql Prize. Yet another volume of her poetry won a prize from the Academie Francaise in 1973. Tueni's Sentimental Archives of a War in Lebanon was published in 1982. From 1977 to 1982, while her husband was Lebanon's delegate to the United Nations, she served in her husband's position as chairman of An Nahar Corporation, which publishes Beirut's largest-circulation newspaper.

Works

• La Terre Arretee. 1984.
• Liban, vingt poems pour un amour. 1979.
• Le Reveur de la terre. Paris : Seghers, 1975.
• Poemes pour une histoire. Paris : Seghers, 1972.
• Les Textes blonds. Beyrouth : Éd. Dar an-Nahar, 1963.

ZEBOUNI, Selma A(ssir)

Birth date: October 26, 1930
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
Education: Educated at the Faculte Francaise de Droit, Beirut, Lebanon, B.A. in Law, 1952; Sorbonne, University of Paris, Licence es-Letters, 1955; Louisiana State University, Ph.D., 1963.
Professional Career: She is currently an associate professor of French and comparative literature at Louisiana State University.

Works

• Dryden, a Study in Heroic Characterization. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965.