Munira Al-Fadhel Explained

Munira A. Al-Fadhel (born 1958) is a Bahraini poet, editor, writer and academic.

Personal life and education

Al-Fadhel was born in 1958,^[1] and studied at the University of Essex, completing a doctorate in comparative literature.

She was a Fulbright Scholar during the 1997–1998 academic year.

Al-Fadhel lives in Bahrain and Boston.^[2]

Career

She has worked as an assistant professor at the University of Bahrain's department of English since 1994.^[3]

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.^[4]

She has published numerous short works of literary criticism and analysis and has served on the judging panel of the 2011 Arabic Booker Prize.^[5]

Selected works

Books (as an author)

• Al-Remora, short stories^[6]
• For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo, novella (The Brooklyn Rail, 2011)^[7]
• Woman, Place and Memory, critical essays on Arab women's writing^[8]

Book chapters

• From localism to cosmopolitanism: a Bahreini perspective, chapter in Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East (Routledge, 1999) ^[9]

Books (as a co-editor)

• Pearl, Dreams of Shell (Howling Dog Press, 2007,), an anthology of modern Bahraini poetry in English translation.^[10]

Poetry

• Namaskar^[11]

External links

• English translation of For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo

Notes and References

1. Book: Qaed, Hameed . Pearl, dreams of shell : anthology of contemporary Bahrain poetry . 2007 . [Manama?] : Shaikh Ebrahim Center for Culture & Research . Internet Archive . 978-1-882863-79-2 . vi.
2. Web site: Twitter biography . 2022-04-11 . Twitter . en.
3. Web site: Munira Al Fadhel . Fulbright Scholar Directory . United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs . 8 April 2022.
4. Web site: حرم السفير الفلسطيني تقيم مأدبة عشاء برعاية الشيخة ثاجبة على شرف الأديبات العربيات . 2022-04-11 . دنيا الوطن . ar.
5. News: Nawotka . Edward . 14 March 2011 . Saudi, Moroccan Share $50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction . Publishing Perspectives . 8 April 2022.
6. Mahmoud . Alaaeldin . 2017-04-30 . DOES PERSIAN/ARABIAN-GULF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE EXIST? AN EXPLORATION OF THE PRACTICES OF COMPARATISTS IN THE GULF COUNCIL COUNTRIES . Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada . en . 19 . 30 . 107–118 . 2596-304X.
7. Book: Hutchins, William Maynard . Paradigm Shifts for Translation and Teaching . 85 . https://books.google.com/books?id=Gx7UDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT85 . Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet . Courtney M. . Dorroll . 2019 . 9780253039811 . Indiana University Press.
8. Web site: Munira al-Fadhel Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins . 2022-04-11 . The Brooklyn Rail . en-US.
9. Sobh, Aisha. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 36, no. 2 (2003): 232–34.
10. Web site: Munira Al-Fadhel . 2022-04-11 . International Prize for Arabic Fiction .
11. Web site: 2021-02-02 . صدور العدد 105 من مجلة «نزوى» . 2022-04-11 . القدس العربي (Al Quds) . ar . (Machine Translated) In the section of texts, Jabbar Yassin records “Papers from the Days of Solitude,” while Mahmoud al-Rimawi writes a story entitled “Dali in a Ghali Palace” and Munira al-Fadil “Namaskar.”.