Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon.  Primary, secondary education in Beirut and two years at the Beirut College for Women (then BUC, now LAU).  Ph D from Indiana University in Comparative Literature, 1973.  Professor at the University of Illinois, 1974- 2004.  Professor Emerita from the University of Illinois and the Lebanese American University in Comparative Literature, African Studies, Women Studies, French, Middle-East Studies, and the Honors Program. 

   Publications include:  L’Excisée/The Excised, new translation by Cynthia Hahn, bilingual critical edition with introductions and notes.  Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009, Femmes du Crépuscule. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2008. The Wounded Breast:  Intimate Journeys through Cancer.  Melbourne:  Spinifex Press, July 2001, (e-book on www.spinifex.com).  Voyages en Cancer (Préface Yves Velan).  Paris: L’Harmattan, Tunis:  Aloès, Beirut:  An-Nahar, 2000. Phénix Prize 2001. Blessures des Mots:  Journal de Tunisie  (Paris:  Côté-Femmes, 1993, English edition, Wounding Words:  A Woman’s Journal in Tunisia, Heinemann, 1996) Play, adaptation for the theater, Tunis:  Les filles de Tahar Haddad, Médina, 1995);  Sexuality and War:  Literary Masks of the Middle East.  (New York: N.Y.U. Press, 1990, Paperback edition, 1992, on SoftLine, Web Site Women R., 1997);  Des femmes, des hommes et la guerre: Fiction et Réalité au Proche-Orient.  (Paris: Côté-Femmes, 1993, France-Liban Award, 1994, Spanish edition:  Sexualidad y Guerra, Indigo ediciones, 1997);  Coquelicot du massacre (with cassette of songs.  Paris:  L’Harmattan, 1988); Contemporary Arab Women Writers and Poets (Beirut:  IWSAW, 1986); L’Excisée (Paris:  L’Harmattan, 1982 and 1992, English translation, The Excised Colorado: Three Continents Press, 1989 and 1995); Montjoie Palestine! or Last Year in Jerusalem (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1980); Veil of Shame:  The Role of Women in the Modern Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World. (Sherbrooke:  Naaman, 1978, International Edicator’s Award); and five edited volumes, seventeen book chapters, seventy-eight articles and more than one hundred book reviews.

   Other activities include traveling and conducting research on women’s condition in the Arab Gulf, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, the Maghreb, and more recently Asia.  Writing and composing songs–the music and the lyrics–and performing at various concerts in the U.S., France, Lebanon and Africa.

 

   For a complete CV, go to her website: www.french.uiuc.edu/People/faculty/Accad.html

Evelyne Accad
Professor Emerita
University of Illinois
Lebanese American University
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