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Biographies and Memoirs of Arab Women

The Gulf

In honor of International Women's Month, we have compiled memoirs, biographies, and stories by women across the SWANA region. You will find stories of resistance, activism and liberation as well as stories of oppression, war, love, family, and identity, ranging from the early 19th century until today. A big thank you to Razan Idris, writer and PhD student in History, for helping us put this list together.

102 books

Our Women on the Ground
Memoirs from the Women's Prison
The day Nina Simone stopped singing
Teta, Mother and Me
Leaving Beirut
هكذا قتلتُ شهرزاد
Resistance
Beirut I Love You
Between the worlds
Balconies
A Mountainous Journey
The Journey
الرحلة
Light the Road of Freedom
Looking for Palestine
ليلى
سارق اللافندر
Ali Boumendjel
Inside the Battle of Algiers
In Search of Fatima
Return
My People Shall Live
الأجنبية
In the House of Silence
Both Right and Left Handed
Min Fami
Dreams of Trespass
Return to Childhood
Stolen Lives
Is Every Cab Driver Called Roger?
Tears of the Desert
A Woman Under Threat
Head Above Water
Rebel
Disfigured
Daring to Drive
Arabia's Hidden America
مذكرات امرأة سعودية
Nothing to Lose But Your Life
My Home, My Prison
This Side of Peace
A Constant Longing
أنا والقدس
My Life Story
Algérienne
Femmes au Combat
Unbowed
Memoir of a Female Iraqi Doctor
Daughter of Damascus
Doing daily battle
السياسيون يتكلمون – والادباء يكتبون
Diaries of an Egyptian Princess
Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist
This Arab Life
They Called Me a Lioness
A Border Passage
The Cotton Plantation Remembered
Nadia, Captive of Hope
Brownies and Kalashnikovs
رحلتي مع الزمن
The Battle for Home
A Woman in the Crossfire
شارون وحماتي
Raja Al Gurg
Iraqi women
City of Widows
Midnight Tales
War and Me
هكذا مرت الأيام
زهرة الأنبياء
أثقل من رضوى
رومانتيكيات
المبتسرون
على الجسر بين الحياة والموت
أيام من حياتى
أرق الروح
المكان
أوراقي.. حياتي.. ج3
أوراقي.. حياتي.. ج2
أوراقي.. حياتي.. ج1
مذكّرات طبيبة
يوميّات الحرب
القيت السلاح
مذكرات مضيفة طيران
الجدران لا تصنع سجنًا
ثمَن السِّلم
The Things I Would Tell You
كتابات مَنسيَّة
غابريال شانيل
الطريق إلى التحرير
أصبحت أنت – سيرة روائية
اليد ترى والقلب يرسم
وردة اليازجي
في بطن الحوت
مذكّرات طفلة
جدار بين ظلمتين
Volverse Palestina
أحلم بزنزانةٍ من كرز
الخيط الفضي
أوراق شخصية
We're in This Together
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