Rana al-Tonsi

Rana al-Tonsi
Born	27 November 1981 Cairo, Egypt
Nationality	Egyptian
Citizenship	Doha, Qatar
Occupation	Poet

Rana al-Tonsi (Arabic: رنا التونسي) is an Egyptian writer and poet.

Early life

Al-Tonsi was born on 27 November 1981 in Cairo and attended the American University in Cairo.[1] She started writing when she was young and published her first book before she was 20 years old.[1] Her first collection, The House From Which Music Came was published to critical acclaim.[1]

Career

Al-Tonsi's writing addresses themes of violence, rebellion, motherhood and intimacy.[2]

Selected publications

Since her first publication, works include:

• A Rose for the Last Days (Merit House, Cairo, 2002)[3]
• A Homeland Called Desire (Merit House, Cairo, 2005)
• Short History (Arab Renaissance House, Beirut, 2006)
• Kisses (Merit House, Cairo, 2010)
• Happiness (Prut, 2012)
• When I'm Not in the Air, Poetry (Jamal Publications, Beirut, 2014)
• The Book of Games (Orientals for Publishing, Cairo, 2015)[4]
• Index of Fear (Dar Al-Ain Publishing, Cairo, 2018)

Reception

Al-Tonsi is viewed as an important voice in the middle-generation of women poets who have published since the 1980s.[5]

The late Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad, the star of her third work, "A Homeland Called Desire", said that Rana Al-Tonsi "carries the concerns of an orphan generation rejecting the experience of the fathers who inherited the homeland."[6] Egyptian critic Salah Fadl, says of Rana's Tunisian Poem that it "does not rely on a continuous narrative, for a single story ... but rather composes fragments of spaced parts … It ranges from the outside to the self, from sense to abstract morality ..."[6]

References

1. قصير, علي (2015). "الإهمال العائلي وتأثيره على سلوك الأحداث للجنوح نحو الجريمة في الجزائر". مجلة الإحياء: 263. doi:10.35553/1699-000-017.018-014.
2. "Rana Al-Tonsi". www.banipal.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
3. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. Margaret Obank. 2006.
4. "The Book of Games". qisasukhra. 2015-08-01. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
5. Abouelnaga, Shereen. (2016). Women in Revolutionary Egypt : Gender and the New Geographics of Identity. Oxford: The American University in Cairo Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-61797-730-5. OCLC 960164884.
6. الداخلی, رحاب (2017-01-01). "دلالات التغطیة المصورة لأنشطة التنظیمات الإرهابیة فی المواقع الإلکترونیة للصحف العربیة دراسة تحلیلیة سیمیولوجیة على موقع صحیفتی الأهرام المصری والشرق الأوسط السعودیة". مجلة البحوث الإعلامیة. 47 (47): 145–194. doi:10.21608/jsb.2017.19029. ISSN 1110-9297.