Munira A. Al-Fadhel (born 1958) is a
Bahrain
Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...
i poet, editor, writer and academic.
Personal life and education
Al-Fadhel was born in 1958, and studied at the
University of Essex, completing a doctorate in
comparative literature.
She was a
Fulbright Scholar
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...
during the 1997–1998 academic year.
Al-Fadhel lives in Bahrain and Boston.
Career
She has worked as an assistant professor at the
University of Bahrain's department of English since 1994.
In 2013, Al-Fadhel was one of five Bahraini women writers invited to attend a dinner reception with the wife of the Palestinian Ambassador to Bahrain.
She has published numerous short works of literary criticism and analysis and has served on the judging panel of the 2011
Arabic Booker Prize.
Selected works
Books (as an author)
* ''Al-Remora'', short stories
* ''For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo'',
novella
A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts ...
(
The Brooklyn Rail, 2011)
* ''Woman, Place and Memory'', critical essays on Arab women's writing
Book chapters
* ''From localism to cosmopolitanism: a Bahreini perspective'', chapter in ''Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East'' (Routledge, 1999)
Books (as a co-editor)
* ''Pearl, Dreams of Shell'' (Howling Dog Press, 2007, ), an anthology of modern Bahraini poetry in English translation.
Poetry
* ''Namaskar''
References
External links
English translation of ''For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo''
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Living people
category:Bahraini women writers
Bahraini short story writers
Bahraini literary critics
Women short story writers
Women literary critics
21st-century women writers
21st-century short story writers
Alumni of the University of Essex
Academic staff of the University of Bahrain
Bahraini emigrants to the United States
1958 births