Iman Humaidan

Iman Humaidan , also Iman Shaheen Humaidan June (born in 1956 in Ain Aanoub , district alayh , Mount Lebanon Governorate ) is a Lebanese writer.

Life

Iman Humaidan fled to Paris during the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) and has lived in Paris and Beirut since then . She studied sociology and anthropology at the American University in Beirut, her master's thesis deals with the stories of families with relatives who disappeared in the Lebanese civil war. She writes as a freelancer for feature sections of various Arabic daily newspapers. She continues to write her fiction in Arabic and her reports in French as well.

Humaidan teaches Arabic and creative writing at European and North American universities. Humaidan is co-founder of the Lebanese PEN Center , of which she has been President since 2015. At the end of 2016 she was Writer in Residence in Basel.

Fonts (selection)

• Wild Mulberries: Roman . Translation from the Arabic Kristina Stock, afterword Hartmut Fähndrich . Basel: Lenos Verlag, 2004
• Neither here nor there: families of the disappeared in Lebanon . MA American University of Beirut, Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2006
• B for Stay like Beirut . Translation from the Arabic Hartmut Fähndrich. Basel: Lenos Verlag, 2007
• Other lives . Translation from Arabic and epilogue Regina Karachouli. Basel: Lenos Verlag, 2013
• Fifty grams of paradise . Translation from Arabic and epilogue Regina Karachouli. Basel: Lenos Verlag, 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Iman Humaidan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Iman Humaidan in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Iman Humaidan Junis at perlentaucher.de
• Iman Humaidan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Iman Humaidan , at Lenos Verlag
• Iman Humaidan , at the Berlin International Literature Festival , 2006
• Tanja Paar: I felt divided myself . Interview, in: Der Standard , October 28, 2015