Evelyne Accad (born October 6, 1943) is a
Lebanese-born educator and writer living in the
United States,
France and
Lebanon.
Life
Accad is the daughter of a Swiss mother (Suzanne Steudler) and a father of Lebanese and Egyptian descent (Fouad Accad). She was born in
Beirut in 1943 and grew up in Lebanon
[ and came to the United States in the early 1960s. She was educated at the Beirut College for Women, Anderson College, ]Ball State University
Ball State University (Ball State, State or BSU) is a public university, public research university in Muncie, Indiana. It has two satellite facilities in Fishers, Indiana, Fishers and Indianapolis.
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and Indiana University Bloomington, receiving a PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...
in comparative literature from the latter institution. Accad taught at Beirut University College
The Lebanese American University (LAU) ( ar, الجامعة اللبنانية الأميركية) is a secular and private American university located in Lebanon. It is chartered by the board of regents of the University of the State of New Y ...
in 1978 and 1984 and at Northwestern University in 1991. She is Professor Emerita in Francophone, Arabophone, African, Middle East, Women's Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the Lebanese American University in Beirut.[
She published her first novel ''L'Excisée'' in 1982; it was translated into English as ''The Excised'' in 1989. This novel deals with excision of women in both the physical and metaphorical sense.
Although she has her own unique style, Accad was strongly influenced by the Egyptian-born French writer Andrée Chedid and the Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi.]
Selected works
Fiction
* ''Coquelicot du massacre'' (1988)
* ''Blessures des Mots: Journal de Tunisie'' (1993); English version ''Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia'' (1996)[
]
Non-fiction
* ''Veil of shame: the role of women in the contemporary fiction of North Africa and the Arab world'' (1978) ; received the International Educator's Award; review
References
1943 births
Living people
Lebanese emigrants to the United States
American women novelists
20th-century American novelists
Ball State University alumni
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Academic staff of Lebanese American University
Northwestern University faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
20th-century American women writers
Novelists from Illinois
American women non-fiction writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American women academics
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21st-century American women writers
20th-century American women educators
20th-century American educators