Alawiya Sobh

Alawiya Sobh is a Lebanese journalist and novelist born in Beirut in 1955. She has BAs in both Arabic and English literature from the Lebanese National University in Beirut. She has worked in journalism since the early 1980s, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines; in the 1990s she founded Snob Al-Hasnaa, the best-selling women’s cultural magazine in the Arab world today, and remains its editor-in-chief. Her books include The Sleep of Days, Dunya and Maryam of the Stories, a prize-winning novel which has been published in French by Gallimard.