Rajaa al-Sanea

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Rajaa al-Sanea (Arabic:رجاء الصانع) is a Saudi writer who became famous through her novel Girls of Riyadh, or Banat al-Riyadh. The book was first published in Lebanon in 2005 and in English in 2007.

Al-Sanea grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of a family of doctors. She currently lives in Chicago where she is a dental graduate student. She was twenty-five years old in 2007.

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