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Miral al-Tahawy

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Miral al-Tahawy

Miral al-Tahawy was born in Sharqiya in the Egyptian Delta into a Bedouin family of the al-Hanadi tribe. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and director of the Arabic program at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. Her works include The Tent (AUC Press, 1998), Blue Aubergine (AUC Press, 2002), Gazelle Tracks (Garnet Publishing/AUC Press, 2009), and Brooklyn Heights (AUC Press 2012), and have been published in almost ten languages.

Articles by Miral al-Tahawy

The Guest
By Miral al-Tahawy
And she tells the story of how he came and took her away on his horse and shut her up in a house with high walls.
Translated from Arabic by Samah Selim
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