Memory in the Flesh is a love story set in Paris between Khaled, a painter and former fighter in Algeria's wars of independence, and Hayat, the daughter of a revolutionary hero, who is beginning a career as a writer
Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the best-selling female author in the Arab world. The Arabic original of this title (Zakirat al Jasad) was awarded the 1998 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. It has since been translated into English and French and has been adapted into a television series. The Art of Forgetting, Mosteghanemi's elegant and warm-hearted meditation on surviving the ravages of love, was published in 2011 by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing. She lives in Beirut. Raphael Cohen is the translator of the novel So You May See by Mona Prince (2011) as well as The Art of Forgetting (2011) by Ahlem Mosteghanemi. He studied Arabic at Oxford University and the University of Chicago and now lives and works in Cairo.
The most successful woman writer in the Arab world Forbes Ahlem has carved a place for herself as one of the most important writers of the Arab world Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film-maker
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