Zeinab Hifni
was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In 1987 she started working as a journalist, and for five years wrote a weekly column in the daily Asharq al-Awsat newspaper. She has published four volumes of fiction.
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Banipal No 20 Summer 2004
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