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ٍButhaina AlNasiri

Short story writer & translator born, 1947 in Baghdad, Iraq. She has been living in Egypt since 1979. '''Six of her short stories collections have been published in Arabic, in Baghdad and Cairo. The Complete short stories of Buthaina al Nasiri (written 1974-2015) in two volumes, published in Arabic, 2016, Cairo. A selection of her stories "Final Night" was translated by the pioneer of modern Arabic literature, Denys Johnson-Davies, published in 2002 by the American University in Cairo Press. The same selection was translated into Italian "Notte Finale" published in 2003 by Baldini Castoldi Dalai editore. ''' Many of her stories were translated into French, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish, and other languages. She translated into Arabic:

1-"Journals of American soldiers in Mesopotamia", collected and translated by Buthaina al Nasiri, published by Alhadara al Arabia Centre,2008,Cairo,

2-"Ben in the World" a novel by Doris Lessing, published by GEBO 2009, Cairo

3-"The Stone Virgins" a novel by Evon Vera, published by NCT, 2011, Cairo

4-"American Idol after Iraq: Competing for Hearts & Minds in the Global Media Age, by Nathan Gardels & Mike Medavoy, published by NCT, 2015,Cairo

Film Making

Since 2016 she has been involved in turning her short stories into short movies.

References:

http://www.aucpress.com/p-2695-final-night.aspx

https://www.marilynztomlins.com/articles/buthaina-al-nasiri-an-iraqi-writer-who-now-lives-in-exile-in-cairo/

https://arablit.org/2011/03/07/exile-and-sense-of-place-in-buthaina-al-nasiris-final-night/

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2002/617/bo2.htm https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/contributors/show/176

http://gulfcoastmag.org/online/2017-summer-fall-gc-online-exclusives/death-of-a-dog/

https://www.amazon.it/Notte-finale-Racconti-tristi-felici/dp/8884904285

https://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/ArticleDetail/NODE01107342

https://martinasblogs.blogspot.com/2012/11/final-night-by-buthaina-al-nasiri-book.html?view=classic&m=1

http://archivio.el-ghibli.org/index.php%3Fid=1&issue=02_11&section=6&index_pos=2.html

https://books.google.com.eg/books?id=xbZPDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=buthaina+alnasiri&source=bl&ots=LX6x0gJzaF&sig=i37Y931dut6jPmIPqJ9mFQb2-_Q&hl=ar&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwinnPWn2M7cAhXFKFAKHfEVB504ChDoATAGegQIBBAB#v=onepage&q=buthaina%20alnasiri&f=false