Her academic interests range from bedouin folk traditions to modern Arab women’s writing. Her literary work has received international acclaim and has been translated into more than fifteen languages.Īl-Tahawy has also published two academic books, as well as numerous scholarly articles. She has published four novels, all of which have been translated into English: The Tent (AUC Press, 1998), Blue Aubergine (AUC Press, 2002), Gazelle Tracks (Garnet Publishing/AUC Press, 2009), and most recently, Brooklyn Heights (AUC Press, 2012), which received the 2010 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and was shortlisted for the 2011 Arabic Booker Prize. In her work, al-Tahawy exposes the lives of bedouin women in lyrical prose. She completed a PhD in Arabic language and literature at Cairo University and immigrated to the United States in 2008. Al-Tahawy grew up in a traditional bedouin family-however, her father chose to educate his daughters. She is often recognized as the first Egyptian bedouin woman writer to publish modern Arabic literature and to provide an authentic glimpse into Egyptian bedouin life, particularly that of women. Miral al-Tahawy was born in 1968 to a bedouin family of the al-Hanadi tribe in the Egyptian Delta.
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