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Emily Nasrallah, maiden name
"Abi Rashed" was born July 6, 1931 in Kfeir village, South Lebanon. She is a Lebanese national who lives with her family at the following address: Osman building, Ain el-Tineh, Beirut, Lebanon Phone & Fax: 961-1-862483; Mobile: 961-3-243273 E-mail: pnsralah@cyberia.net.lb Emily started her formal education in the elementary public school of Kfeir. She followed her secondary education in Shoueifat National College, near Beirut, and went on to university at the Beirut University College (now the Lebanese American University) and on to the American University of Beirut where she received her B.A. Degree in Education in 1958. Emily married in 1957 Philip Nasrallah, Chemist from Zahle, Lebanon, and they raised a family of 4 children: Ramzi, Maha, Khalil, and Mona. Novelist, Journalist, Freelance writer, Teacher, Lecturer, Women's Rights activist, are some of the activities she has successfully engaged in. She started her journalistic and writing career while still at College level. Her first novel, Birds of September, was published in 1962, and won her three Arabic literary prizes. This Novel is now in its ninth edition. It was followed by seven novels, four children's books, and seven short story collections which explore themes such as family roots, Lebanese Village Life, The war in Lebanon, and the struggle of women for independence and self-expression. She is one of a number of Lebanese women authors known as the Beirut Decentrists, who stayed in Beirut, shared the experience of the war and wrote about the conflict. Emily participated in the
1988 International Olympics Authors Festival in Calgary (Canada), and was
a panelist and guest reader at the 1989 PEN International Congress in Toronto
and Montreal. She has participated as panelist and lecturer in conferences
in Germany, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Egypt and USA.
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