Be?" (1981) Arabic – proved to be very controversial and was not sold in most Egyptian stores. "The Prayer of Love" (1983) Arabic. Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories (1983) English translation. "On a Long Winter’s Night" (1980) Arabic. The Pharaoh’s Jewel (1991) Arabic- historical novel. A House in the Land of the Dead (Unfinished) Arabic. Tribute On June 5, 2021, Google celebrated her 91st birthday with a Google Doodle. References Sources Liya, L. (1999). "My World of the Unknown": A Catharsis for the Sexual Awakening of an Egyptian Woman Writer. Community Review, 1771. Nkealah, N. (2008). Reconciling Arabo-Islamic culture and feminist consciousness in North African women's writing: silence and voice in the short stories of Alifa Rifaat and Assia Djebar Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 45(1), 19–41. Alifa Rifaat. (n.d.). Hatem, M. (1986). The Lives Behind the Politics [Review of the book Two Women in One Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories A Bridge through Time A Wife for My Son Jana Gough Nawal el-Saadawi Osman Nusairi Alifa Rifaat Denys Johnson Davies Laila Said Ali Ghalem G. Kazolias]. The Women's Review of Books, 3(10), 10–11. Rifaat, A. (1983). Distant View of a Minaret and Other Short Stories (J. Davies, Trans.). Quartet Books Limited. "Fatimah Rifat." Crosshatching in Global Culture; A Dictionary of Modern Arab Writers: An Updated English Version of R.B. Campbelll's "Contemporary Arab Writers." Ed. John J Donohue and Leslie Tramontini. Vol. II. Lebanon: Orient-Institut, 2004. Print. 2 vols. 1930 births 1996 deaths Egyptian novelists Egyptian women novelists Egyptian women short story writers Egyptian short story writers Egyptian women writers 20th-century women writers 20th-century novelists Egyptian feminists Arabic-language women poets Arabic-language poets Proponents of Islamic feminism 20th-century poets 20th-century short story writers