Munira Al-Fadhel
Munira A. Al-Fadhel is a Bahraini poet, editor, writer and academic.
Personal life and education
Al-Fadhel was born in 1958, and studied at the University of Essex, completing a doctorate in comparative literature.She was a Fulbright Scholar during the 1997–1998 academic year.
Al-Fadhel lives in Bahrain and Boston.
Career
She has worked as an assistant professor at the University of Bahrain's department of English since 1994.In 2013, Al-Fadhel was one of five Bahraini women writers invited to attend a dinner reception with the wife of the Palestinian Ambassador to Bahrain.
She has published numerous short works of literary criticism and analysis and has served on the judging panel of the 2011 Arabic Booker Prize.
Selected works
Books (as an author)
Al-Remora, short storiesFor the Voice, For the Fragile Echo, novella Woman, Place and Memory, critical essays on Arab women's writingBook chapters
From localism to cosmopolitanism: a Bahreini perspective, chapter in ''Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East''Books (as a co-editor)
Pearl, Dreams of Shell, an anthology of modern Bahraini poetry in English translation.Poetry
- ''Namaskar''