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Rasha al Ameer

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Rasha al Ameer is a Lebanese publisher, cultural critic and novelist.

Biography

Rasha al-Ameer began writing as a student in Paris. After returning to Lebanon in 1990, she and Lebanese writer and translator Lokman Slim founded Dar-al Jadeed, an independent Lebanese publishing house, which has published work by Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Darwish, among other authors.[1]

In 2021, her work was distinguished with the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the category Publishing and Technology.[2]

Works

  • Yawm al-din, Beirut: Dar Al-Jadeed, 2002.
    • Translated into French by Youssef Seddik as Le dernier jour: confessions d'un imam, Paris: Actes Sud, 2009.
    • Translated into English by Jonathan Wright. Judgment Day: A Modern Arabic Novel, Oxford University Press, 2011.

References

  1. ^ Author Profile: Rasha al Ameer
  2. ^ "Dar Al Jadeed". sheikh zayed book award. Retrieved 2021-10-13.