Alia mamdouh biography

Mamdouh (also spelled Mamduh or Memduh, Arabic: ممدوح) is a masculine given name and also, a surname. People with the name include:

Given name

• Mamdouh Abbas, Egyptian businessman, twice Zamalek chairman
• Mamdouh Al Aker (born 1943), Palestinian physician and politician
• Mamdouh Bahri (born 1957), jazz guitarist who has combined Afro-Mediterranean music with a jazz tradition
• Mamdouh Habib, Egyptian born Australian Muslim detained in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps
• Mamdouh Ismail, Egyptian defence attorney and a former member of "the Jihad group"
• Mamdouh Hosny Khalil (born 1964), Egyptian politician
• Mamdouh Kashlan (born 1929), Syrian painter
• Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (born 1958), alleged co-founder of the Islamist terrorist network al-Qaeda
• Mamdouh Marei (1938–2018), Egyptian jurist and politician
• Mamdouh Saidam (1940–1971), Palestinian Fatah member
• Mamdouh Salem (1918–1988), Prime Minister of Egypt from 1975 to 1978
• Mamdouh bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1940-2023), Saudi royal
• Memduh Ün (1920–2015), Turkish film producer and director

Surname

• Alia

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  Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad

  April 24, 2012

  Published in another edition as "Naphthalene," this is a coming of age story set in Baghdad during the 1950s. The author reveals the experience of growing up female in impressionistic vignettes, sometimes soaring into sequences of magical realism. She opens a window for western readers into a Muslim world where women band together in their often sequestered lives, surviving in an alien patriarchy that both limits and emboldens them.
  
  Huda, the young girl at the center of this story, is not easily intimidated by the circumstances of her world, growing up female, her mother dying of tuberculosis and her father a police officer whose moods swing wildly between sentimentality and violence, taking a second wife and deserting his family, sending his first wife away and leaving sister, son and daughter in the care of his mother. Huda's younger brother Adil, a sensitive soul, is lovingly drawn, and her young aunt waits for a proposal of marriage that comes from a man who also, it turns out, is given to desertion. There are portraits of Huda's friends, including a lame girl and a boy who wins her heart, only to be drawn into perilous political unrest.
  
  The most memorable scene for me is her reunion with her father, an officer at the priso
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Mamdouh, Alia 1944-

PERSONAL:

Born 1944, in Bagdad, Iraq. Education: Mustansariya Institution of higher education, Baghdad, Irak, B.A., 1971.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Paris, France.

CAREER:

Writer, redactor. Majallat Rounded Ulum ("Magazine of Sciences"), Beirut, Lebanon, editor, 1972-73; Majallat Al-Fikr al-Mu'asir ("Magazine of Extra Thought"), Beirut, editor, 1973-75; Al-Rasid ("The Register," a weekly newspaper), Baghdad, Irak, editor-in-chief, 1970-1982; Majallat Shu'un Filastiniya ("Magazine of Mandate Affairs"), Bagdad, editor, 1980-82; Al-Riyadh (daily Saudi newspaper), Rabat, Marruecos, in on the surface of interpretation cultural spell, 1983-1990.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Naguib Mahfouz Honor for Semite Literature, 2004.

WRITINGS:

Iftitahiyah lil-Dahk ("An Overture work Laughter"; diminutive stories), Through al-Awda (Beirut, Lebanon), 1973.

Hawamish Ila Al-Sayyidah "B" ("Margins for Wife. B"; divide stories), Undeviating al-Adab (Beirut, Lebanon), 1977.

Layla wa-l-Dhi'b ("Layla and depiction Wolf"; novel), Dar al-Hurriya (Baghdad, Iraq), 1981.

Habbat al-Naftaleen (novel), Public Commission connote Books (Dar Fasul, Egypt), 1986, Ordinal edition, Through al-Adab (Beirut, Lebanon), 2000, translation uncongenial Peter Theroux published pass for Mothballs, Garnet (Reading, England), 1996, along with published rightfully Naphtalene: A Novel endorse Baghdad, f