Fedwa Malti-Douglas was born on 1946 and is a Lebanese-American professor and writer.
10 Facts About Fedwa Malti-Douglas
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas is a professor emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington.
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas grew up in Deir el-Qamar, where her father was a physician.
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas learned to become fluent in English and when she attended Cornell University, she started taking Semitic languages.
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas attended the University of California, Los Angeles and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where she did her graduate work in Arabic.
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas received a 1997 Kuwait Prize for Arts and Letters and earned the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Dean of Women's Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington in 1998.
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas studied Muslim literary texts from medieval to modern times and wrote about her findings in Women and Gender in Islam.
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas describes how women's bodies are increasingly seen as a threat in this literature.
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas wrote the second English language examination of the work of Nawal El Saadawi in 1995.
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In Medicines of the Soul: Female Bodies and Sacred Geographies in a Transnational Islam, Fedwa Malti-Douglas gives an analysis of three autobiographies belonging to Muslim women who became more religious.