Fadia faqir biography meaning

Fadia Faqir (Arabic: فادية الفقير) is a Jordanian British author and academician, involved in human rights issues.

This paper attempts to critically trace the Arab woman fugitive who flees from what the so-called backward world to the so-called modern and civilized world.

This is an interview with Fadia Faqir, the author of three novels and a number of short stories and plays.

Faqir is the author of three novels and a number of short stories and plays.

The study aims to explore the representation of Arab women in Fadia Faqir's novel, Pillars of Salt and the representation of Western women.

This paper attempts to critically trace the Arab woman fugitive who flees from what the so-called backward world to the so-called modern and.

She was born in Amman, Jordan, and her father is from Jordan, of the tribe Al-Ajarmah. But her mother is Circassian.

Biography

Faqir was born in Amman in 1956 and educated in Jordan and England. She gained her BA in English Literature from the University of Jordan, Amman, before going in 1984 to Britain where she completed an MA in creative writing at Lancaster University.

The University of East Anglia awarded her the first PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 1990.^[1] Her first novel, Nisanit, published by Penguin in 1988, is set in two undisclosed Middle East countries, and recounts the story of a young girl whose father is arrested because of his political activities, and a Palestinian guerrilla fighter captured by the Israeli forces.

Pillars of Salt, her second novel, was published by Quartet Books in 1996, and has been transla