Abir Hamdar, The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014.
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Abir Hamdar is a Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. She has published articles, short stories, and plays on gender, illness/disability, cinema, exile, and Islamism. She is the author of The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature (Syracuse, 2014), and is currently co-editing a collection of essays entitled Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World (Routledge, forthcoming 2015).