Tamirace Fakhoury

Tamirace Fakhoury is a Lebanese poet born in Beit Chabab, Mount Lebanon. Tamirace published her first poetry book entitled The country of the Emperor and the Lost Child at the age of nine. Then, throughout the years, she published four other poetry books in French at Dar An Nahar, Beirut. (Aubades, 1996 ; Contre-marées, 2000 ; Poème absent, 2004; Hémisphères, 2008). Her poems are published in various Arab and Francophone journals in Lebanon, Europe and Canada.

Selected for the Belles Etrangères in France in 2007,[1] Tamirace writes poetry that seeks to depict geographical and identitarian fragmentation in post-war societies.[2]

Tamirace holds a Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the University of Freiburg in Germany. Tamirace competed a research fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Tamirace was also a visiting scholar at the University of California campus located in Berkeley, California. She is currently a professor at the Lebanese American University in Byblos, Lebanon.

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References

  1. See Les Belles Etrangères (2007), http://www.belles-etrangeres.culture.fr/?Tamirace-Fakhoury
  2. See Tamirace Fakhoury, " La mémoire de la guerre et du conflit", Les Cahiers de Malagar, Confluences, 11/09/2009

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