Name: Women and Citizenship, The Case of Tunisia and Other Examples from the Maghreb Region
Start: 2023-03-06T20:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-03-06T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Center for Culture and Research

Amira Ghoneim is a Tunisian writer and novelist and a professor of Arabic and linguistics at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Sousse, Tunisia. She holds a doctorate in linguistics and translation and is a prolific researcher in this field, publishing many books. She also wrote for Arab newspapers on cultural topics and several novels, including The Yellow File which won the Sheikh Rashid bin Hamad Award in 2020. She was also nominated for Arabic Booker Prize for Fiction in 2021 for her novel Staying at the House of the Elite. Her novels are distinguished by historical references that intertwine her plots and her unbridled imagination.

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