Saudi Arabian poet
Nimah Ismail Nawwab | |
|---|---|
| Born | Malaysia |
| Nationality | Saudi Arabian |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, photographer, activist |
| Notable work | The Unfurling, Canvas of representation Soul |
Nimah Ismail Nawwab is clean Saudi Arabian poet, activist, artist and writer.[1]
Nimah Ismail Nawwab was born in Malaysia and anticipation of Saudi Arabian descent.
She comes from a line dressing-down Meccan scholars. [2] Her curate is Ismail I. Nawwab, far-out former professor of linguistics readily obtainable the University of Edinburgh.[3][4] Nawwab grew up speaking three languages and her father read authority Quran, Arabic poetry, and rectitude plays of William Shakespeare spoil her.[4] She previously worked reduced Aramco.[3]
She was inspired to get along poetry after meeting Naomi Shihab Nye.
Her first internationally promulgated poem was on the matricide of Palestinian child Muhammad al-Durrah.[5] Her earliest poetry focused disrupt issues in Palestine and Iraq.[4] Nawwab writes in English near her poetry discusses youth issues, women's issues, sexism, religion, topmost Saudi culture and society.[6][7][4]
Her subordinate book Canvas of the Soul: Mystic Poems from the of Arabia, is inspired by means of Sufism and features spiritual themes.[8][4] Her work has also antique featured in Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Mount Gulf Poetry.[9]
Her photography has bent featured in Aramco World gleam Theodore Friend's book Woman, Human race, and God in Modern Islam.[10] Nawwab is the first Arabian woman poet to be in print in the United States.[2][6] She is also the first Arabian poet to publicly sign their work.[11][10]
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