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Munira Al-Fadhel

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Munira Al-Fadhel is a Bahraini writer and academic.[1] She studied at the University of Essex, completing a doctorate in comparative literature. She has taught at the University of Bahrain since 1994. She has published numerous short works of literary criticism and analysis. She has also written three books:

  • Al-Remora, short stories
  • For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo, novella
  • Woman, Place and Memory, critical essays on Arab women's writing

She co-edited Pearl, Dreams of Shell, an anthology of modern Bahraini poetry in English translation. She served on the judging panel of the 2011 Arabic Booker Prize.

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