Razan Naiem Almoghrabi (), also seen as Razan Naim Moghrabi, is a
Libyan
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writer and feminist.
Education
Razan Naiem Almoghrabi studied accountancy before turning to a literary career.
[Razan Naim Moghrabi, ''Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature'', author page.]
Career
Almoghrabi has been publishing her work in Libyan newspapers since 1991 and was managing editor for a cultural magazine called ''Horizons''. Her published works include several collections of short stories, among them''In Exile and Horses Devour the Sea'' (2002), ''Texts with a Lost Signature'' (2006), ''An In-between Man'' (2010), and ''Soul for Sale'' (2010); two novels (''Migration to the Tropic of Capricorn'' in 2004 and ''Women of Wind'' in 2010) and one volume of poetry.
Her novel ''Women of Wind'' (''Nisa al rih''), in which a Moroccan servant in Tripoli seeks a smuggler to arrange her passage to Europe, was longlisted for the
Arabic Booker Prize (International Prize for Arabic Fiction) in 2011. In 2015, Almoghrabi was recognized with an
Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for her efforts at freedom for writers and journalists in Libya.
Almoghrabi organized Tripoli's first women's rights conference in 2012, and signed a Statement of Solidarity with the women of Syria, at the Forum on Women’s Rights, Peace and Security in Istanbul. In 2013, she spoke before the
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
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about women's rights in Libya. Her public feminism, including her choice not to wear a veil, has made her the target of death threats and religious violence; in 2013 the entrance to her home was shot at by several members of the militia.
[Lisa Anderson]
"Women's Rights Under Growing Pressure in Arab World"
''Thomson Reuters Foundation News'' (7 March 2013).
References
External links
Author's personal blog (in Arabic)
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Libyan novelists
21st-century Libyan women writers
Libyan women novelists
Libyan feminists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Libyan writers
20th-century Libyan women writers
21st-century Libyan writers