Iman Humaydan is a Lebanese writer, researcher, and academic. She is the cofounder of PEN Lebanon and was its president between 2015 and 2023. She was also a board member of PEN […]
This March, Hiyem Cheurfa’s new book Contemporary Arab Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance appeared as part of Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature series. In it, Cheurfa takes us on a journey through a number of women’s memoirs, written in the context of twenty-first century uprisings. In this conversation, the author talks about the challenges and the difficulties of writing this book and how the texts she studied changed her life.
