Women's Writing in the Arab World

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Sunday Submissions: Call for Paper Proposals on ‘Wombs and Tombs’

July 17, 2022

Literary scholars Roxanne Douglas and Layla AlAmmar are calling for abstracts for a special issue on “Wombs and Tombs: Hauntings and Generational Trauma in Arab Women’s Writing,” to be submitted by July 29, 2022.

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Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: ‘Women’s Writing in the Arab World’

January 8, 2018

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.