Evelyne Accad
Lebanese-born educator and writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Evelyne Accad is a Lebanese-born educator and writer living in the United States, France and Lebanon. Life Accad is the daughter of a Swiss mother and a father of Lebanese and Egyptian descent . She was born in Beirut in 1943 and grew up in Lebanon and came to the United States in the early 1960s. She was educated at the Beirut College for Women, Anderson College, Ball State University and Indiana University Bloomington, receiving a PhD in comparative literature from the latter institution. Accad taught at Beirut University College in 1978 and 1984 and at Northwestern University in 1991. She is Professor Emerita in Francophone, Arabophone, African, Middle East, Women's Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the Lebanese American University in Beirut.
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- Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East (1991) (58)
- Veil of Shame: The Role of Women in the Contemporary Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World (1978) (11)
- Assia Djebar's Contribution to Arab Women's Literature: Rebellion, Maturity, Vision (1996) (8)
- Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892–2008 by Hoda Elsadda (review) (2014) (7)
- The Arab apocalypse (1989) (7)
- The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys Through Cancer (2001) (6)
- Sexuality and War (2020) (5)
- Sexuality, war, and literature in Lebanon (1991) (4)
- Freedom and the social context: Arab women’s special contribution to literature (1987) (4)
- Excision: Practices, discourses and feminist commitment (1993) (3)
- Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz)@@@Paris, When It's Naked (1994) (3)
- Beirut, The city that moves me (2002) (3)
- Loin de Médine: Filles d’Ismaêl, by Assia Djebar. 350 pages. Algiers: Enag Editions, 1994. FFr120 (Paper) (1995) (2)
- A Bridge Through Time: A Memoir. (1986) (2)
- Interrelationship between Arab nationalism and feminist consciousness in the North African novels written by women (1977) (2)
- Feminist perspective on the war in Lebanon (1989) (2)
- Maternal thinking: Toward a politics of peace: by Sara Ruddick, 291 pages. Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 1989. Price US$24.95 (1990) (1)
- Report on a Research Trip (1970) (1)
- Crossing the Demarcation Line (1991) (1)
- Reciprocal Transmission: My "Women and War" Journey with miriam cooke (2018) (1)
- Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia (1996) (1)
- Body Image and Breast Cancer (1970) (1)
- Writing one's life : Arab francophone women (2002) (1)
- Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women's Experiential Texts and Human Contexts, by Chantal Zabus (2009) (1)
- 31 The Theme of Sexual Oppression in the North African Novel (1978) (1)
- MICHELLE HARTMAN, Jesus, Joseph and Job: Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women's Fiction, Literaturen im kontext, Band 12 (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002). Pp. 177. €39.00 cloth (2004) (0)
- New writing about Egypt (1997) (0)
- " Femmes de la Mediterranee," Peuples Mediterraneens, No. 22 - 23, Paris. 1983 (1970) (0)
- Unwinding Threads, by Charlotte Bruner (1970) (0)
- AI Mar'a Fi AI-Islam (The Status of Women in Islam) (1970) (0)
- Men, Women and God(s) (1970) (0)
- Tunisie Plurielle: Vol. 1. Actes du Colloque de l'Universite de York, and: La transpoesie: Vol. 2. Actes du Colloque de l'Universite de York (review) (2001) (0)
- We Have a City to Patch Up (1970) (0)
- Response to Ghandour's Review of Cooke (1991) (0)
- Theme of sexual repression in the North African novel (1975) (0)
- Arab Women's Words with New Vision (1992) (0)
- The Square Moon: Supernatural Tales (1998) (0)
- A Much-Needed Voice of Resistance (2022) (0)
- Xannt: Contes fantastiques (1980) (0)
- Gender and Violence in the Lebanese War Novels (2018) (0)
- Cancer speaks in war language (2009) (0)
- Third World Women and the Family (1970) (0)
- Robert Champigny: poète et philosophe by Hédi Bouraoui (review) (2017) (0)
- Women in Contemporary Tunisia (1970) (0)
- Of war siege and Lebanon: womens voices from the Middle East and South Asia. (2006) (0)
- Maternal Thinking: Toward A Politics of Peace, by Sara Ruddick (1970) (0)
- The Importance of Music in my Writing and ‘Engagement’ (2007) (0)
- Flight Against Time / Women in Development / Mortemaison (1970) (0)
- On the Plane between Paris and Beirut (2003) (0)
- Arab Women's Literary Inscriptions (2010) (0)
- Arabic Short Stories, by Mahmoud Manzalaoui (1970) (0)
- Gender and Violence in Lebanon and Yugoslavia (1970) (0)
- Assia Djebar: An Algerian Woman's Voice of Maturity and Vision (1997) (0)
- Image of the Mother in the Novels of North African Men (1970) (0)
- Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts (review) (2009) (0)
- Georges CormArab Political Thought: Past and Present by Patricia M. Phillips-Batoma Atoma Batoma (review) (2022) (0)
- Journal of Maghrebi Women (1970) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Hdi Bouraoui.TUNISIE PLURIELLE. VOL. 1 ACTES DU COLLOQUE DE L'UNIVERSIT DE YORK.and Ed. Mansour M'Henni.LA TRANSPOSIE. VOL 2 ACTES DU COLLOQUE DE L'UNIVERSIT DE YORK.. (2001) (0)
- My Journey With Cancer (1970) (0)
- Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing by Margot Badran, and Miriam Cooke, (eds.) (1970) (0)
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