Enayat al-Zayyat — Love and Silence with Iman Mersal

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Dying by suicide shortly after her novel, Love and Silence, was rejected for publication in 1963, Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat gained brief recognition when the book was finally published four years after her death. Discovering the novel in a Cairo market some 30 years later launched acclaimed Egyptian writer Iman Mersal on a decades-long, life-altering quest to solve the many mysteries about al-Zayyat’s life, death and legacy. Mersal joins us in this episode to discuss the recent English translation of her award-winng 2019 book, Traces of Enayat, and the nexus between al-Zayyat’s story and her own.
Mentioned in this episode:
Traces of Enayat (transitbooks.org/books/tracesofenayat)by Iman Mersal

How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts (sternberg-press.com/product/how-to-mend-mother…) by Iman Mersal
The Threshold (us.macmillan.com/books/9780374604288/thethresh…) by Iman Mersal

Love and Silence (english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/18/62/352135/…) by Enayat al-Zayyat
The Open Door (amazon.com/Open-Door-Novel-Latifa-al-Zayyat/dp…) by Latifa al-Zayyat
The Open Door film (en.majalla.com/node/196341/artopen-door-iconic…)
Egyptian Actress Nadia Lutfi (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Lutfi)
City of the Dead cemetery (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_the_Dead_(Cairo)) in Cairo
Ludwig Keimer (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Keimer)
German Institute of Antiquities (dainst.org/en)

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