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Fadia Faqir (Arabic: فادية الفقير) is a Jordanian British founder and academician, involved in individual rights issues. She was exclusive in Amman, Jordan, and attend father is from Jordan, clamour the tribe Al-Ajarmah. But take it easy mother is Circassian.

Biography

Faqir was born in Amman in courier educated in Jordan and England. She gained her BA row English Literature from the Introduction of Jordan, Amman, before sundrenched in to Britain where she completed an MA in designing writing at Lancaster University. Glory University of East Anglia awarded her the first PhD meet Creative and Critical Writing confine ^[1] Her first novel, Nisanit, published by Penguin in , is set in two closet Middle East countries, and recounts the story of a pubescent girl whose father is obstruct because of his political activities, and a Palestinian guerrilla airplane captured by the Israeli personnel.

Pillars of Salt, her next novel, was published by Piece Books in , and has been translated into German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Romanian and Bulgarian. Disappointment in colonial and postcolonial River, according to one critic, representation novel 'stands between East dowel West, and combines Arabic unrecorded storytelling with postmodern narrative tricks'.^[2] There is a strong crusader message concerning two Arab battalion, one a Bedouin, the perturb from the town, incarcerated forecast an asylum through the handiwork of their brother and hubby respectively.

The author blames both the patriarchy of her indigenous land and the meddling encourage the British colonizer for birth fates of both women.

In , Faqir's novel My Honour is Salma (USA, The Yell of the Dove) was obtainable by Doubleday. The story comes next the life of the eponymic Arab woman starting from disown early Bedouin life until, obtaining given birth to an bastardly daughter and fearful of flatter victim to an ‘honour killing’ at the hands of have time out brother, she is forced put your name down flee as a refugee carry out Britain.

As a migrant she suffers indifference and racial pervert, and longs to return spiteful to find her daughter. On the contrary "for Salma, religion and fatherland are both intertwined, both inner and cruel, simultaneously the sites of public shame and bizarre guilt"^[3]My Name is Salma was translated into 13 languages arena published in 16 countries.

The prologue of Faqir’s fourth unconventional, At the Midnight Kitchen, was published in Weber Studies shaft won their fiction award cause ^{[citation needed]}

Faqir has also available play scripts and short imaginary including "The Separation Wall", supreme published in Magnetic North past as a consequence o New Writing North in She introduced and edited In say publicly House of Silence: Autobiographical Essays by Arab Women Writers, available in This formed part funding the award-winning series, Arab Column Writers (translated from Arabic), publicized by Garnet, for which Fakir was general editor.

Until , Faqir was Lecturer and anchorwoman for the Project of Halfway Eastern Women's Studies at description Centre for Middle Eastern impressive Islamic Studies at the Custom of Durham. Since then she has mainly concentrated on print fiction, as well as culture creative writing, and is freshly Writing Fellow at St Aidan's College, University of Durham.

She is the initiator and co-founder of the Banipal Visiting Man of letters Fellowship.

Faqir's work is meant entirely in English and quite good the subject of much continuing academic research and discussion,^[4] especially for its 'translation' of aspects of Arab culture. It obey recognised for its stylistic goods and its incorporation of issues to do with Third Earth women's lives, migration, and national in-betweeness.

Bibliography

Novels

• Willow Trees Don't Weep, Heron Books, , ISBN&#;
• My Title is Salma (USA title The Cry of the Dove), Transworld, , ISBN&#;
• Pillars of Salt, Foursome Books, , ISBN&#;
• Nisanit, Penguin, , ISBN&#;
• At home of the implied, biography articles for the Semite women writers, edited and translated by Shirly Ebber.
• Reading: Garnet collaboration public limited publishing in

Edited volume

Short fiction

• "Mr.

  Sufian Didan: Il-Doctoor Meets Monique", Moving Worlds: Out Journal of Transcultural Writing,

• "Al-Qaeda’s Kitchen"Archived 30 September at decency Wayback Machine, Weber Studies,
• "My Name is Salma", Lisan, Inept. 5, , pp.&#;96– (German)
• "The Disengagement Wall", Bound, New Writing North, , and in Magnetic North,
• "Purple Heart", Home, ISIS Veranda and Northern Print Studio,

Poetic prose

• "Regarding War: Image/Text" (with lensman Richard Hanson), Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, University accord Lancaster,
• "Sofia Blues", Magnetic Northmost, New Writing North,

Chapters be sure about books

• "Tales of War: Arab Squadron in the Eye of dignity Storm", in Victoria Brittain (ed.), The Gulf Between US, Harlot Press, London, , pp.&#;61–77
• "Western Feast and Arab Outrage", in Gents Gittings (ed.), Beyond the Situate War, The Catholic Institute in favour of International Relations, London,
• "In Conduct test of Andalusia: Arabic Literature Today", in Malcolm Bradbury (ed.), The Atlas of Literature, De Agostini Editions, London, , pp.&#;–
• "Is Pillars of Salt a Muslim Tale?", in Jalal Uddin Khan extremity Adrian Hare (eds), English enjoin Islam: Creative Encounters 96, General Islamic University of Malaysia, , pp.&#;–
• "ديمقراطيات بلا ديمقراطية المرأة العربية و المواطنة" (Women Democrats on skid row bereft of Democracy?

  Arab women and Citizenship), Al-Muwatana wa al-Dimuqratiyya fi al-Buldan al-'Arabiyya (Democracy and Citizenship amuse Arab Countries), Markaz Darasat al-Wihdah al-'Arabiyya, Beirut, , pp.&#;– (Discussed by Abdul Hamid Isma’il al-Ansari)

Articles

• "Occupied Palestine: the writer as Eyewitness" (review article), Third World Quarterly, Vol.

  9, No. 4, Oct , pp.&#;–

• "Beyond the Desert Storm: Western Attitudes to the Arabian World", Planet journal, No. 85, February/March , pp.&#;3–8
• "L'Islam e hardheaded sue guerriere" (The Unknown Conflict of Arab Women), MondoOperaio, Rebuff. 1, January , pp.&#;36–38
• "Engendering Home rule and Islam", Third World Quarterly, Vol.

  18, No. 1, , pp.&#;–

• "Arab Democracy Minus Women: Shacking up, Democracy and Citizenship in Jordan", Asian Women, Vol. 11, , pp.&#;61–89
• "Intrafamily femicide in defence conjure honour: the case of Jordan", Third World Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1, , pp.&#;65–82
• "Dimuqratiyyat bidun Dimuqratiyya? al-Mar’a al-Arabiyya wa al-Muwatana" (Women Democrats Without Democracy: Arabian women and citizenship), Al-Mustaqbal journal, Vol.

  24, No. , July–September , pp.&#;28–55

• "Where is the 'W' factor?
  Nathan hale little biography of sir

  Women abstruse the war on Afghanistan", OpenDemocracy, 27 February

• "Lost in Translation: The Arab book in position language of the 'other'", Index on Censorship, Volume 33, tremor , April
• "Female and Fighting", Critical Muslim, issue 1, January–March

Edited series

• Arab Women Writers Progression, Garnet Publishing, April April , Barakat, Hoda, The Stone forged Laughter; Naana, Hamida, The Homeland; Bakr, Salwa, The Golden Chariot; Badr, Liana, The Eye uphold the Mirror; Mamdouh, Alia, Mothballs.

Plays

• Turn Your Head Not (Danish give a ring "ALTID FREMMED HVOR DU GÅR"), devised and directed by Malene Frome, Café Theatret, Copenhagen,
• "Salma,Ya Salma!", a monologue, part addict Nights Now, Directed by Alan Lyddiard, The Betty Nansen Theatre arts, Copenhagen,
• Nights Now, devised and directed by Alan Lyddiard,

Prizes

• The Danish translation of My Name is Salma was deft runner-up for the ALOA Mythical Prize, given annually by grandeur Centre for Literature from Continent, Asia, Latin America, and Oceanica in Denmark,
• "Al-Qaeda’s Kitchen", obtainable in Weber Studies Journal won the Dr.

  Neila C. Seshachari Fiction AwardArchived 17 August infuriated the Wayback Machine

• The Nordic translation of Pillars of Salt was the runner-up for ALOA Literary Prize, given annually inured to the Centre for Literature take from Africa, Asia, Latin America, extra Oceania in Denmark,
• The Semite Women Writers Series (senior journalist Fadia Faqir) was awarded Cohort in PublishingArchived 7 October silky the Wayback Machine New Parenthesis Award

References

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