Alifa Rifaat

Alifa Rifaat (Arabic أليفة رفعت, DMG Alifa Rif ʿ at, * 1930 in Cairo, † 1996) was an Egyptian writer.

She describes in her stories destinies of Egyptian girls and women in a patriarchal society.

Expenditure

  • Distant view of a minaret and other stories. Trans. Denys Johnson -Davies. Heinemann, Harlow 1983, ISBN 0-435-90271-7; again as TB ibid., Oxford 1987 ISBN 0-435-90912-6
  • Time of the jasmine flower. Translator's preface and epilogue Nagi Naguib. Union Verlag, Zurich, 1988, 2nd edition 1991 ISBN 3-293-20004-4
  • The second night after a thousand nights. Narratives. translated by Suleman Taufiq. Edition Orient, Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3-922825-39-7.
  • First Love Last Love. Narratives. Übers Suleman Taufiq. Edition Orient, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-922825-10-9. Again German paperback publisher, dtv, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-11586-6
  • The Girls of Burdain. Übers Regina Karachouli. Union, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-293-00213-7.

Source

  • Bibliographical Institute & FA Brockhaus AG, Der Brockhaus multimedial premium 2005, 2005
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