Huda al-Daghfaq
Saudi Arabian poet and journalist
Huda Abdullah Al-Daghfaq (Arabic: هدى الدغفق; born 24 October 1967) is a Saudi Arabian poet, journalist, and feminist. She supports the removal of male guardianship from women and emphasises the importance of women as social and political decision-makers. Her memoir I Tear the Burqa to See has been described as an expression of the "existential battle" between her poetry and her cultural background.
Biography
Al-Daghfaq was born on 24 October 1967. She earned a bachelor's degree in Arabic language from the University of Riyadh in 1989. After graduation she taught in secondary schools, but during this period, because of her poetry she was accused of modernism – which in Saudi Arabia at that time came with accusations of atheism. She published her collection, The Upward Shadow, in 1993. Volumes of her poetry have been translated into several languages. She has published two memoirs, the first when she was forty years old. She experiments with form in her autobiographical writing.
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