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Miral al-Tahawy
Egyptian novelist and short story writer
Miral al-Tahawy (Arabic: ميرال الطحاوي), also known as Miral Mahgoub, is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer.
She comes from a conservative Bedouin background and is regarded as a pioneering literary figure.
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The Washington Post has described her as "the first novelist to present Egyptian Bedouin life beyond stereotypes and to illustrate the crises of Bedouin women and their urge to break free."[1]
Biography
She was born in a village in the Sharqia Governorate in the eastern Nile delta.
Her Bedouin family belongs to the al-Hanadi tribe.[2] Al-Tahawy is the youngest of seven children. She has stated that her progressive-thinking father was responsible for her obtaining an education, in spite of the constraints of traditional Bedouin society especially on women.[3] She gained a BA in Arabic literature from Zagazig University,[4] and then worked as a schoolteacher which