8 Short Stories by Arab Women for International Women’s Day
Your gift for International Women’s Day is eight great short stories by Arab women, in translation, available free online.
Your gift for International Women’s Day is eight great short stories by Arab women, in translation, available free online.
In general, I was hoping to introduce to students the genres (premodern and modern) where women writers have contributed to what we might, with some skepticism, call the “canon” of Arabic literature.
I stumbled across this new site a few days ago (via whom? I can’t remember, but thank you), and was delighted to see its list of suggested books, which includes many excellent texts and authors. (I started to make a sub-list of my favorites, but it was nearly as long as the original.)