Razan Naiem Almoghrabi

Not to be confused with Razan Moughrabi.

Razan Naiem Almoghrabi (Arabic: رزان نعيم المغربي), also seen as Razan Naim Moghrabi, is a Libyan writer and feminist.[1]

Education

Razan Naiem Almoghrabi studied accountancy before turning to a literary career.[2]

Career

Almoghrabi has been publishing her work in Libyan newspapers since 1991 and was managing editor for a cultural magazine called Horizons.[3] Her published works include several collections of short stories, among themIn Exile and Horses Devour the Sea (2002), Texts with a Lost Signature (2006), An In-between Man (2010), and Soul for Sale (2010); two novels (Migration to the Tropic of Capricorn in 2004 and Women of Wind in 2010) and one volume of poetry.[2]

Her novel Women of Wind (Nisa al rih), in which a Moroccan servant in Tripoli seeks a smuggler to arrange her passage to Europe, was longlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize (International Prize for Arabic Fiction) in 2011.[4] In 2015, Almoghrabi was recognized with an Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for her efforts at freedom for writers and journalists in Libya.[5]

Almoghrabi organized Tripoli's first women's rights conference in 2012, and signed a Statement of Solidarity with the women of Syria, at the Forum on Women’s Rights, Peace and Security in Istanbul.[6] In 2013, she spoke before the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women about women's rights in Libya. Her public feminism, including her choice not to wear a veil, has made her the target of death threats and religious violence; in 2013 the entrance to her home was shot at by several members of the militia.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ Author profile on IPAF website
  2. ^ a b Razan Naim Moghrabi, Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, author page.
  3. ^ Fatima El Issawi, "Women and Media: Libyan Female Journalists from Gaddafi Media to Post- revolution: Case Study" Cyber-Orient 8(1)(2014).
  4. ^ Jason Morgan, Toyin Falola, and Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi, Culture and Customs of Libya (ABC-Clio 2012): 56-57. ISBN 9780313378607
  5. ^ Pen International, "Oxfam Novib/PEN Awards 2015".
  6. ^ Statement of Solidarity, Om Kvinna till Kvinna (1 October 2012).
  7. ^ "Razan al-Maghrabi", participant profile, Writers Unlimited International Festival Winternachten the Hague.
  8. ^ Lisa Anderson, "Women's Rights Under Growing Pressure in Arab World" Thomson Reuters Foundation News (7 March 2013).