Alawiya Sobh

Alawiya Sobh (Arabic: علوية صبح) (born 1955) is a Lebanese writer and author.
Biography.
Born in Beirut, Sobh studied English & Arabic Literature at the Lebanese University. Upon graduation in 1978, she pursued a career in teaching. She also began publishing articles and short stories, at first in "An-Nida" newspaper and then in "An-Nahar". After a spell as cultural editor, she became editor-in-chief of "Al-Hasnaa", a popular Arabic women's magazine, in 1986. In the early 1990s, she became editor-in-chief of women's magazine "Snob Al-Hasnaa’".
In 2009, Sobh served on the judging panel of the Beirut39 competition.
Works.
Short Stories
Novels
Translations
Reception of Work.
Sobh's work has been critically acclaimed. For her literary accomplishments and innovative writing, Sobh received the Sultan Qaboos prize in Oman in 2007. Her novels "Dunya" and "Ismuhu Al-Gharam" were long-listed for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2008 and 2010, respectively. In 2016, an eponymous award dubbed the "Alawiya Sobh Literary critique Award" was launched at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tétouan for participants whose critiques center around Sobh's work.