Distant View of a Minaret by Alifa Rifaat, translated by Denys Johnson-Davis
23 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Egyptian, Fiction, Short Stories, Translation
Given the monumental (continuous) changes post-Arab Spring, my recent (ongoing) search for women’s voices before and after led me to an unusual writer who defies many expectations of what it means to be internationally literary: Alifa Rifaat lives and works in a traditional Egyptian Muslim...