To accompany Sally El Haq’s moving essay on rediscovering Alifa Rifaat, we have assembled a list of seven Arab women authors whose writings, and sometimes person, were erased, censored, or marginalized from what might have been — in a different world — their rightful places in literary memory.
Lebanese novelist and short-story writer Layla Baalbaki (1934-2023), whose debut novel and only short-story collection vaulted her into the company of the best Arab writers of the twentieth century, died […]
“Now, it was the beginning of summer.”
Cats have made themselves an essential part of human literatures.
