Nur Salman (born 1937) is a Lebanese writer. She was born in

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and received a BA in Arabic literature from the Beirut College for Girls, a MA in comparative literature from the

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and a state doctorate in Arabic literature from

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. She is a professor of Arabic literature at the

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. Salman is a member of the board for the National Conservatory. She is also a member of the Lebanese Women's Council and the Lebanese Child Care Association.

Selected works

* ''Fadahikat'' ("And She Laughed") novel (1960) * ''Yabqa al-bahr wa-I-sama ("The Sea and Sky Remain") short stories (1966) * ''al-Shi'r al-suji''("Sufi Poetry") literary criticism (1980) * ''al-A dab al-Jaza'iri ji rihab al-rafd wa-I-tahrir'' ("Algerian Literature in the Broad Expanses of Rejection and Liberation") literary criticism (1981) * ''al-Lughat al-Samiya wa-I-Iugha al-'Arabiya'' ("Semitic Languages and Arabic") non-fiction (1981) * ''Madkhal ila dirasat al-shi'r al-ramzi ji-I-adab al-hadith'' ("Introduction to the Study of Symbolic Poetry in Modern Literature") literary criticism (1981) * ''Adwa' 'ala-I-tasawwuf al-Islami'' ("Illuminating Sufism") non-fiction (1982) * ''Ila rajullam ya 'ti'' ("To a Man Who Did Not Come") poetry (1986) * ''al- 'Ayn al-hamra ("The Red Eye") short stories (1991) * ''Li-fajr yashuqq al-hajar'' ("Toward a Rocksplitting Dawn") poetry (1994) * ''Lan utji' al-wajd'' ("I Will Not Snuff Out Love") poetry (1997)

References

1937 births Living people Lebanese women poets Lebanese novelists Lebanese women short story writers Lebanese short story writers American University of Beirut alumni Saint Joseph University alumni Academic staff of Lebanese University Writers from Beirut {{Lebanon-writer-stub