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| Rana al-Tonsi | |
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| Born | 27 November 1981 Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Citizenship | Doha, Qatar |
| Occupation | Poet |
Rana al-Tonsi (Arabic: رنا التونسي) is an Egyptian writer and poet.
Early life
Al-Tonsi was born on 27 November 1981 in Cairo and attended the American University in Cairo. She started writing when she was young and published her first book before she was 20 years old. Her first collection, The House From Which Music Came was published to critical acclaim.
Career
Al-Tonsi's writing addresses themes of violence, rebellion, motherhood and intimacy.
Selected publications
Since her first publication, works include:
- A Rose for the Last Days (Merit House, Cairo, 2002)
- A Homeland Called Desire (Merit House, Cairo, 2005)
- Short History (Arab Renaissance House, Beirut, 2006)
- Kisses (Merit House, Cairo, 2010)
- Happiness (Prut, 2012)
- When I'm Not in the Air, Poetry (Jamal Publications, Beirut, 2014)
- The Book of Games (Orientals for Publishing, Cairo, 2015)
- Index of Fear (Dar Al-Ain Publishing, Cairo, 2018)
Reception
Al-Tonsi is viewed as an important voice in the middle-generation of women poets who have published since the 1980s.
The late Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad, the star of her third work, "A Homeland Called Desire", said that Rana Al-Tonsi "carries the concerns of an orphan generation rejecting the experience of the fathers who inherited the homeland." Egyptian critic Salah Fadl, says of Rana's Tunisian Poem that it "does not rely on a continuous narrative, for a single story ... but rather composes fragments of spaced parts … It ranges from the outside to the self, from sense to abstract morality ..."
References
- ^ قصير, علي (2015). "الإهمال العائلي وتأثيره على سلوك الأحداث للجنوح نحو الجريمة في الجزائر". مجلة الإحياء: 263. doi:10.35553/1699-000-017.018-014.
- "Rana Al-Tonsi". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Margaret Obank. 2006.
- "The Book of Games". qisasukhra. 2015-08-01. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- Abouelnaga, Shereen. (2016). Women in Revolutionary Egypt : Gender and the New Geographics of Identity. Oxford: The American University in Cairo Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-61797-730-5. OCLC 960164884.
- ^ الداخلی, رحاب (2017-01-01). "دلالات التغطیة المصورة لأنشطة التنظیمات الإرهابیة فی المواقع الإلکترونیة للصحف العربیة دراسة تحلیلیة سیمیولوجیة على موقع صحیفتی الأهرام المصری والشرق الأوسط السعودیة". مجلة البحوث الإعلامیة. 47 (47): 145–194. doi:10.21608/jsb.2017.19029. ISSN 1110-9297.