Fadia Faqir. Her book Pillars of Salt is considered to stand between East and West by critics.

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Fadia Faqir

Faqir was born in  and educated in  and England. She gained her BA in English Literature from the , Amman, before going in 1984 to Britain where she completed an MA in creative writing at . She was awarded the first Ph.D. in creative and critical writing in 1990 by the .  She published her first novel Nisanit in 1988, which was about a girl and was set in Middle East countries. Her second novel Pillars of Salt was published in 1996, this was translated into many languages such as German, Romanian and Dutch. This book was also set in Arab locations and has women as strong characters. She published another book in 2007 My Name is Salma which was published in 13 countries and 14 different languages.

Fadia Faqir has been honoured with several awards for her invaluable pieces of work such as the ALOA literary award, which she received for the Danish translation of My Name, is Salma.

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Fadia Faqir has mainly done all her work related to the females and the Arab community. Her book Pillars of Salt is considered to stand between East and West by critics. We see that not only her novels but her plays and articles like  and Arab Democracy Minus Women: Gender, Democracy and Citizenship in Jordan are also based on mainly the Arabic society and females in it.

In her book My Name is Salma where the story is about how a Arab woman is forced to flee to Britain after giving birth to a illegitimate daughter due to ...

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