Leila Abouzeid

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Leila Abouzeid (Arabic: ليلة أبو زيد‎) (born 1950, El Ksiba) is a Moroccan author. She writes in Arabic rather than in French and is the first Moroccan woman writer of literature to be translated into English.

Works

• Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, 1990
• Return to Childhood, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, 1999, ISBN 978-0-292-70490-9
• The Last Chapter, The American University in Cairo Press, 2003
• The Director and Other Stories from Morocco, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, 2006, ISBN 978-0-292-71265-2

External links

• Return to childood, introduction (retrieved on March 14, 2008)