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Alia Mamdouh


Born
Baghdad, Iraq
Genre
Literature & Fiction


Alia Mamdouh also spelled Aliyah Mamduh (born 1944) to an Iraqi father and Syrian mother who both came from Tikrit and Alia grew up in the capital Baghdad. She is an Iraqi novelist, author and journalist living in exile in Paris, France. She holds an Naguib Mahfouz Award in Arabic Literature. She is most notably known for her book Naphtalene, as it was widely acclaimed and translated.

In 1982, after completing her degree in psychology from the University of Mustansiriya, which at the time she was working as editor-in-chief of Al Rasid magazine and editor of al-Fikr al-mua’sir magazine, she decided to move and live in Beirut, then Palestine and London and finally settling in Paris where she currently resides.

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Average rating: 2.92 · 236 ratings · 54 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors
Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad
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3.26 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1986 — 17 editions
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المحبوبات
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2.42 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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La garçonne
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La naphtaline
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La Passion
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The Tank
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Naftalina (Memorias del Med...
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“I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!”
― Alia Mamdouh, The Loved Ones
tags: crazy, personality, truth
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“And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.”
― Alia Mamdouh
tags: arab, feminist, iraqi, women
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