User:Monda Salem

Monda Salem (born 23 August 1991) is a poet and a writer. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt. By the age of 9, people started noticing her talents in writing poetry and stories as well as composing songs. When she was 17 years old, she joined the English department in the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University. One year later, she started working at the Media Department in Bibliotheca Alexandrina. On the same year, she decided to choose literature as her major. Art is her passion. She believes that each and every person is born with an artist inside. She is very passionate in discovering the classical works of literature and her writings are original same as this era was. Monda can be considered as a romantic writer with a touch of the gothic philosophy where the protagonist is either the predator or the prey. She wrote around 35 poems. Her words are always surrounded with an air of feminism. She is affected by Greek literature specially the works of Homer, Aeschylus and Euripides as well as Greek philiosophers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. She is also interested in the civilization of the Western world as well as her interest in philosophy, psychology and sociology.