Open AccessArab Women Writing in English… A Prelude to Dialogue
Author(s) -
Zina Alani Mougharbel
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.174
Subject(s) - blank , multiculturalism , content (measure theory) , literature , history , art , visual arts , sociology , pedagogy , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics
What is more frightening for a writer than a blank page? Better yet, what is more frightening for a female Arab writer than a blank page: an audience indifferent to the content of that page, once it’s been filled … or one intently waiting to read what the author has to say? What if the audience is tenfold larger, multicultural and from various parts of the world, instead of being confined to the geography of the Arab world?