Hoda Barakat(Is this your profile?)

Hoda Barakat (Arabic: هدى بركات) (born 1952) is a Lebanese novelist. She lived most of her early life in Beirut before moving to Paris, where she now resides. She has published six novels, two plays, a book of short stories, and a book of memoirs. Her works are originally written in Arabic and have been translated into English, Hebrew, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Romanian, Dutch, and Greek. Her work often explores themes of trauma and war; three of her early novels are narrated by male ch...