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Alifa Rifaat

Born

in Cairo, Egypt

June 05, 1930

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy

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Fatimah Rifaat (Arabic: أليفة رفعت; June 5, 1930-January 1996), better known by her pen name Alifa Rifaat, was an Egyptian author whose controversial short stories are renowned for their depictions of the dynamics of female sexuality, relationships, and loss in rural Egyptian culture. While taking on such controversial subjects Fatimah Rifaat’s protagonists remained religiously faithful and passive feelings towards their fate. Her stories did not attempt to undermine the patriarchal system; rather they were used to depict the problems inherent in a patriarchal society when men do not adhere to their religious teachings that advocate for the kind treatment of women. Fatimah Rifaat used the psydonymn Alifa to prevent embarrassment on the part ...more

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	Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat, أليفة رفعت, Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 713 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Erotic Stories by Rowan Pelling (Editor), Apuleius (Contributor), Nicholson Baker (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.30 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	جوهرة فرعون by أليفة رفعت, Alifa Rifaat 2.67 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zeit der Jasminblüte by Alifa Rifaat, Nagi Naguib (translator) 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories By Women by Richard Glyn Jones (Editor), Marquise De Mannoury D'Ectot, Simone de Beauvoir 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Majka je bila sjajan čovek: afričke ženske priče by Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (Editor, translator), Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nuri Hammond 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die zweite Nacht nach tausend Nächten : Erzählungen by Alifa Rifaat, Alīfa Rifʿat 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Erotiske fortællinger fortalt af kvinder by Bodil Randers (Editor), Sven Holm (Editor), Audre Lorde really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	من يكون الرجل؟ 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	في ليل الشتاء الطويل 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Daughter, I’m not crying now because I’m fed up or regret that the Lord created me a woman. No, it’s not that. It’s just that I’m sad about my life and my youth that have come and gone without my knowing how to live them really and truly as a woman.
knowing how to live them really and truly as a woman.”
― Alifa Rifaat

tags: feminism, regret, women

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“In an instant between sleep and wakefulness, an instant outside the bounds of time, that gave the sensation of being eternal, the sounds of night, like slippery fishes passing through the mesh of a net, registered themselves on Zennouba's hearing, filtering gradually into her awakening consciousness:”
― Alifa Rifaat

tags: dreams, metaphor, sleep

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“I rushed back to the house and upstairs to mourn the rabbit with silent tears. I blamed myself for not having called out and pleaded with her for its life. It was my first felt encounter with death and it provided me with the bitter knowledge that for grown-ups there were, as it were, degrees of death, one for humans and another for animals. Later in life I was to discover that many of us also think in terms of degrees of death where our fellow mates were concerned, but that only few few of us become capable of viewing our own death with equanimity”
― Alifa Rifaat, Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories

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The Translator by Leila Aboulela

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Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi

7 votes, 17.5%

This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun

6 votes, 15.0%

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

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4 votes, 10.0%

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4 votes, 10.0%

The Child of an Ancient People by Anouar Benmalek

1 vote, 2.5%

Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat

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Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

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