Munira Al-Fadhel

Munira A. Al-Fadhel (born 1958) is a Bahraini poet, editor, writer and academic.

Personal life and education

Al-Fadhel was born in 1958,^[1] and studied at the University of Essex, completing a doctorate in comparative literature.^[2]

She was a Fulbright Scholar during the 1997–1998 academic year.^[3]

Al-Fadhel lives in Bahrain and Boston.^[4]

Career

She has worked as an assistant professor at the University of Bahrain's department of English since 1994.^[3]

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.^[5]

She has published numerous short works of literary criticism and analysis and has served on the judging panel of the 2011 Arabic Booker Prize.^[6]

Selected works

Books (as an author)

• Al-Remora, short stories^[7]
• For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo, novella (The Brooklyn Rail, 2011)^[8]
• Woman, Place and Memory, critical essays on Arab women's writing^[9]

Book chapters

• From localism to cosmopolitanism: a Bahreini perspective, chapter in Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East (Routledge, 1999) ISBN 978-1-315-02736-4^[10]

Books (as a co-editor)

• Pearl, Dreams of Shell (Howling Dog Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-882863-79-2), an anthology of modern Bahraini poetry in English translation.^[7][2]

Poetry

• Namaskar^[11]