A Saudi birth and nationality academic, writer, and journalist. She has started her journalistic trip in 1960s when she was in her second decade. In mid 1980s shewas assigned an editor manager in al-Riyadh news paper. She is the first journalistwoman is this position in the Arabian Peninsula. She is a leader in the academicfield at gulf and Saudi Arabia particularly level. She was assigned a deputy forgirls’ colleges in king Saud University in Riyadh as the first deputy woman atSaudi universities level. She also was assigned a dean for girls academic center(1990- 1997) at King Saud university. She considers a creative sound that exceedsthe Arabian borders to other international cultures that stems from the rootingconnection to the country and from the smell of local privatization through hercreativity in the field of short story. She expressed her writing experience andconnectivity to home land by saying “my words are bridge between sand andpapers”. She is a leader in dealing with women issues with unfamiliar courage inlocal frame. She then expressed her reality and entered into a world everybodywas looking at as social banned we cannot approach.Her narrative collection “sealing to distance” (1982) includes 18 storydealt with different aspects of life and society. Woman was strongly attending inher book. She helped the man to go through women’s world in and out of theprison so he will know his crime and the society crime over woman.Dr. Al- sagaf issued three books in English concerning the Saudi creationand she considered to be all for her production. These books are the following:
The Literature of Modern Arabia: An Anthology
It was issued in 1988 supported by king Saud University in Riyadh and edited bySalma Alkhadra Al- jusy. This book contains both poetic and narrative creativity.She also published in this book a translation for her story “coal piece and coin”.She chose this story because it gives the reader an image of social life reality inthe age of suffering and poverty.
Assassination Of Light: Modern Saudi Short Stories
It was collected and edited by Afa Henrychsdorve, and Abu Baker Baqader andwas issued in 1990. It is the first local stories published in English in a separatedbook. The book includes sixteen short stories, three of which were written bywomen, and one of which was “assassination of light on river stream” by KhyriaAl-sagaf. The first part of the story’s title was selected to be a title of the book.
Voice Of Change: Short Stories By Saudi Arabian Women Writers
It was translated and edited by Abu Baker Baqader, Afa Henrychsdorve, andDapra Eykrz in 1998. It is the first book in English specified entirely for womencreativity in the King Dom. The book includes twenty six stories written by sixteenSaudi female writers. Tow stories for Khyria Al-sagaf in book were translated whichare “Loosing” and “Reversal”. Both stories show how woman, who is a victim of ruling man, suffers.She also deal with other books abroad because she is a female voicepresent in the public and is an image of culturally and socially reality thatpresents a part of the Arabian society in spite of its local privatization.
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