Emily Nasrallah (1931–2018)

Emily Nasrallah was born Emily Daoud Abi Rached in Kfeir, Lebanon on July 6, 1931. She received a bachelor's degree in education and literature from the Lebanese American University in Beirut in 1958. She was an author, a journalist, a teacher, a lecturer, and a women's rights advocate. Her first show more novel, Birds of September, was published in 1962. Her children's book, A Cat's Diary, was published in 1998. She received the Goethe Medal in 2017 and became a commander of the National Order of the Cedar in 2018. She died on March 13, 2018 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less