Selected North African Womens Fiction
Explore a curated selection of North African women's fiction, featuring powerful stories and voices from acclaimed female authors. Discover must-read books that celebrate culture, identity, and resilience.
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Wounding Words
by Evelyne Accad
Poetical and powerful, Wounding Words is a vivid autobiographical exploration of women's issues in the political turmoil of contemporary Tunisia.
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The Open Door
by Latifa Al-Zayyat
This novel explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. …
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the tiller of waters
by hoda barakat
This spellbinding novel narrates the many-layered recollections of a hallucinating man in devastated Beirut. The desolate, almost surreal, urban landscape is enriched by the unfolding …
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Children of the New World
by Assia Djebar
A compelling war novel, as seen by women, sheds light on the current Iraq conflict.
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The Abductor
by Leïla Marouane
"Nayla Zeitoun has just been told by her son that she has become a grandmother. In his excitement he lets out a small secret about …
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The Sandwoman
by Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska
The author's feminism is subtle. She understands that repression imprisons men as well as women... But although the mirror she holds up is clouded, it …
