Her experience of coming to the city for the first time and gaining her freedom inspired her to write. She managed to avoid marriage by working as a teacher, and then by leaving without permission to study at the University of Cairo.īorn in 1968 into t Miral al-Tahawy (Arabic: ميرال الطحاوي) is an Egyptian writer of short stories and novels.īorn in 1968 into the Bedouin al-Hanadi tribe, she credits her liberal-minded father with the fact that both she and her older sister (who is a pharmacist) obtained an education, although they lived in traditional seclusion. Until she left for Cairo at the age of 26, al-Tahawy had never left her village (Geziret Saoud in the eastern Nile delta) without a male relative or guardian. She has also published numerous other novels in Arabic which have been translated and will be discussed in further details under the “Novels” tab.Miral al-Tahawy (Arabic: ميرال الطحاوي) is an Egyptian writer of short stories and novels. She is most well known for her 2010 novel Brooklyn Heights where she describes the life of an Egyptian immigrant of Bedouin origins named Hind who fled to America with her eight-year old son and of the people she meets in her new life along with her memories of Egypt. In 2009, she became a Full-Bright Post-Doctoral International Scholar. In 2008, she moved to America where she became a Post-Doctoral Research and Teaching fellow in New York University.

In addition she received a PhD with Honors from Cairo University in the field of Modern Arabic Literature. She earned a Bachelor’s degree and Masters degree with honors in Arabic Language and literature from Zagazig University in Egypt.

Desert Narrative in the Context of Social Tribal Taboos.

A full list of her publications is available here and she currently she has two major research focuses: Her writing often reflects marginalized Arab groups such as the Bedouin and Tuareg. Miral Al Tahawy at the American University in Cairo when she received the 2010 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature She was born into a family of Bedouin in Egypt. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, AZ.

She is an award winning Egyptian novelist and short story writer who is also an affiliated member of the Virginia G. Miral Al Tahawy is a current professor of Arabic literature in Arizona State University.

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