Dalal Khalifa
Dalal Khalifa (دلال خليفة) is a Qatari novelist and playwright.
Along with her sister, Shu'a', Khalifa was one of the first writers in Qatar to publish novels.[1] She has also written plays, publishing three together in one volume, Insan fi hayz al-wujud (A Person in the Sphere of Existence), in 1995. A native of Doha, she received her bachelor's degree in English from Qatar University and also possesses a master's degree in translation from Heriot-Watt University. At one time head of the Foreign Publications Unit, she also led the women's cultural forum Marasina.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Wa?l S. Hassan (1 August 2017). The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions. Oxford University Press. pp. 710–. ISBN 978-0-19-934980-7.
- ↑ Radwa Ashour; Ferial Ghazoul; Hasna Reda-Mekdashi (1 November 2008). Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-1-61797-554-7.
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