Fadwa tuqan autobiography samples

In May, educator Laila Familiar launched a call for memoirs in Arabic that resulted in a list of dozens of recommendations.

Fadwa tuqan autobiography samples

Below are five by women that were recommended more than once:

IN TRANSLATION:Fadwa Tuqan’sA Mountainous Journey: A Poet’s Autobiography, in translation by Olive E.

Kenny and Naomi Shihab Nye.

This book, selected by Bayan Haddad and Alaa Samara, follows the journey of Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan (1917-2003), from her birth in 1917 (her mother didn’t remember the exact date, but she did remember what she cooked that day) to her emergence as a major poet, to her life post-1967.

Although there seems to be no excerpt of the translation available online, some of her poems are floating around in translation.

IN TRANSLATION: Arwa Salih’sStillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt, tr.

Samah Selim

This book, selected by Yasser Abdellatif and A