Education
Born and raised in Cairo, she studied Arabic language and literature at First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Azhar University.
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Sahar Tawfiq
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Career
She has worked as a teacher and educationist in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Her first published work was a short story in an Egyptian weekly in 1971. Her first collection of stories An Tanhadera ash-Shams (That the Sun May Descend.
1984) was well received.
After a long hiatus, her next book, a novel called Ta"am ez-Zaitoun (The Taste of Olives), came out in 2000. Since then she has published more works of fiction.
She has also translated works from English into Arabic, including books by Margaret Atwood, Ishmael Beah, Doris Lessing and Maxine Hong Kingston. Sahar Tawfiq"s work has appeared in Banipal magazine.
She lives in Maadi, Cairo.
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Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
The Arkansas Arabic Translation Award (full title: the University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation) is a prize given for a notable English translation of a book-length literary work originally written in the Arabic language.The Arkansas Arabic Translation Award (full title: the University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation) is a prize given for a notable English translation of a book-length literary work originally written in the Arabic language.