What’s in a ‘First’?: Notes on Arabic Literature by Women in 2019
This was not the first of the firsts. Nor was it, unfortunately, the last.
Ahlam Mostaghanemi
Which Five of the ‘100 Most Powerful Arab Women’ Are Authors?
This list came out earlier in the month, but it didn’t occur to me that any of the women on Arabian Business’s rundown of the “100 most powerful Arab women of 2011” might be novelists or poets.
But there are a few, tucked in here and there.