![]() ![]() ![]() Rifaat began writing again and published a short story in 1955 as Alifa Rifaat, a pseudonym she used until 1960, when her husband demanded she stop writing altogether. ![]() feel any desire to complete the act with herself as she used to do in the first year of marriage. It is such a wonder that in ones period of extreme privations that acute observations are made, for haven't most powerful poems been written by authors who had been incarcerated during the period of the write? Privations are profoundly stated when the woman ![]() Even while writing about such privations, Alifa's characters are keen observers noticing a 'spider's web' in the ceiling and 'toenails needed cutting' when they are by their husband's side. In this story, as in many others, death is treated as part of life, as an occurrence so that when it happens the people involved are scarcely seen to be mourning the loss but would rather be found preparing the body for burial. For instance the title story, The Distant View of a Minaret, tells of a sex-starved married woman. The stories discuss topics that would otherwise be regarded as taboo subjects in some Muslim countries. ![]()
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