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In the House of Silence
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To complement the novels in the "Arab Women Writers" series, this is a collection of autobiographical writings by 13 leading Arab women authors. Through these testimonies, the women describe their experiences and expose the often difficult conditions under which their narratives were written. Patterns running throughout include experiences of confinement, subjugation, the struggle for education and the eventual use of writing as an escape. They speak of their own reasons for writing, of how experiences in family life, politics, exile and even imprisonment have affected them and their work, and of how their motivation has been both tested and reinforced by various setbacks and the struggle for recognition.
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A dual citizen of Britain and Jordan, Fadia Faqir is an award-winning novelist, playwright and short story writer. Her works have been published in eighteen countries and translated into fourteen languages, and include five novels including Pillars of Salt, My Name is Salma and Willow Trees Don't Weep. She is also the editor and co-translator of In the House of Silence: Autobiographical Essays by Arab Women Writers (1998) and was the senior editor of the Arab Women Writers series, for which she received the Women in Publishing 1995 New Venture Award. She was a member of the judging panel of Al-Multaqa Short Story Competition 2016. Fadia Faqir is an Honorary Fellow of St Mary's College and a Writing Fellow at St Aidan's College, Durham University, where she teaches creative writing. She is a co-founder of the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship.
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