User:Munfarid1/Lemya Shammat

Lemya Shammat (لمياء شمات) is a Sudanese academic, fiction writer, literary critic and translator between her native Arabic and English. She teaches ...

Life and work
Shammat obtained her PhD in English language and linguistics from the University of Khartoum. Following this, she has served as assistant professor and former head of the department for languages and cultural studies at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. As an academic, she has published studies on literary criticism and discourse analysis.

In his foreword for the anthology Modern Sudanese Poetry, editor and translator Adil Babikir acknowledged Shammat's review of the Reflections on Sudanese Culture by fellow Sudanese critic Abdel Goddous al-Khatim.

As a regular contributor and editor for Sudanese literature and culture for the English-language ArabLit online magazine, Shammat has published several essays and articles of cultural criticism. There, she has published literary criticism about the work of contemporary Sudanese writers, such as Bushra Elfadil, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Muhammad Taha Al-Qaddal and Eisa Al-Hilo. In her essay about the work of the early female Sudanese novelist Malkat al-Dar Muhammad, Shammat discussed the role of women writers and gender roles in Sudanese fiction.

Writing about the career of Sudanese musicians Muhammad Wardi, Mohammad Al-Amin and the music band Igd al-Jalad, she also published essays on popular music and society in contemporary Sudanese culture. ... the popular art of protest during the Sudanese Revolution in 2019.

Shammat is also a member of the Sudanese Writers Union and a literary translator between English and Arabic. Shammat's fiction writing has been published in a collection of short-short stories, a subgenre also known as flash fiction.