Munira Al-Fadhel
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Munira A. Al-Fadhel (born 1958) is a Bahraini poet, editor, writer and academic.
Al-Fadhel was born in 1958,[1] and studied at the University of Essex, completing a doctorate in comparative literature.[2]
She was a Fulbright Scholar during the 1997–1998 academic year.[3]
Al-Fadhel lives in Bahrain and Boston.[4]
Career
She has worked as an assistant professor at the University of Bahrain's department of English since 1994.[3]
In 2013, Al-Fadhel was one of five Bahraini women writers invited to attend a dinner reception with the wife of the Palestinian Ambassador to Bahrain.[5]
She has published numerous short works of literary criticism and analysis and has served on the judging panel of the 2011 Arabic Booker Prize.[6]