Iman Mersal (Arabic: إيمان مرسال; born November 30, 1966, Mit 'Adlan, Dakahlia, Egypt) is an Egyptian poet.
Life
Iman Mersal graduated from Mansoura University, and received her MA and PhD from Cairo University.
She co-founded Bint al-Ard (Daughter of the Earth), which she co-edited from 1986 to 1992.
She immigrated to Boston, in 1998, and then to Edmonton, Alberta with her family in 1999. Mersal serves as Associate Professor of Arabic literature at the University of Alberta.
Her work has ap...