A Meeting with Dutch Writer Mineke Schipper at the BA
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The BA Cultural Outreach Sector is organizing a seminar to discuss Widows: A Global History, the latest work by Dutch writer Mineke Schipper, on Tuesday, 15 April 2025, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, in the BACC Meeting Room C. The discussion will be conducted by the book’s translator, Mr. Abdul Rahim Youssef, and moderated by Mr. Mounir Oteiba.
Mineke Schipper is a Dutch writer, academic, and novelist. She studied French and philosophy at Amsterdam Free University, and literary theory and comparative literature at Utrecht University. She began her career teaching French and African literature, and her 1973 doctoral thesis was the first on African literature. She still holds her position as a researcher at Leiden University's Centre for the Arts in Society, but is currently mainly dedicated to her life as a writer.
Among her works that have been translated into Arabic are: Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from around the World, Naked or Covered: A History of Dressing and Undressing around the World, Humanity's End as a New Beginning: World Disasters in Myths, Hills of Paradise Power: Powerlessness and the Female Body, and Widows: A Global History.
In addition to her fiction and research books, Mineke Schipper has written for several newspapers and magazines in the Netherlands and abroad, but has been particularly renowned for her studies of women's literature.