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Oct 3, 2025
Oct 3, 2025
24 min
🎓 Monika al Shurbaghi im Gespräch mit Alifa Rifaat (1930-1996). Die ägyptische Schriftsellerin Alifa Rifaat ist eine der bedeutensten arabischen Schriftsteller:innen des 20. Jahrhunderts gewesen. In ihren Kurzgeschichten schildert sie ungeniert weiblicher Sexualität, Beziehungen und Verluste in der ländlichen ägyptischen Kultur. Ihre Geschichten versuchten nicht, das patriarchalische System zu untergraben, sondern dienten dazu, die Probleme einer patriarchalischen Gesellschaft darzustellen, in der Männer sich nicht an Koranvorschriften halten. Insbesondere ihre Schilderungen der Beschneidungen von Frauen, gegen die Sie sich immer einsetzte, und die heute in Ägypten und Sudan noch üblich ist, erregte große Aufmerksamkeit. Das Gespräch ist eine seltene Interviewaufnahme mit Alifaa Rifaat in Kairo 1992.
/🎓 Monika al Shurbaghi in conversation with Alifa Rifaat (1930-1996). Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat was one of the most important Arab writers of the 20th century. In her short stories, she unabashedly depicts female sexuality, relationships and loss in rural Egyptian culture. Her stories did not attempt to undermine the patriarchal system, but served to portray the problems of a patriarchal society in which men do not adhere to Koranic precepts. In particular, her descriptions of female circumcision, which she always opposed and which is still common practice in Egypt and Sudan today, attracted a great deal of attention. The conversation is a rare interview recording with Alifaa Rifaat in Cairo in 1992.
/🎓 مونيكا الشرباغي في حوار مع أليفة رفعت (1930-1996). كانت الكاتبة المصرية أليفة رفعت واحدة من أهم الكاتبات العربيات في القرن العشرين. في قصصها القصيرة، تصف دون خجل الجنس الأنثوي والعلاقات والخسائر في الثقافة الريفية المصرية. لم تكن قصصها تحاول تقويض النظام الأبوي، بل كانت تهدف إلى تصوير مشاكل المجتمع الأبوي الذي لا يلتزم فيه الرجال بأحكام القرآن. وقد حظيت وصفاتها لختان النساء، الذي لطالما ناضلت ضده، والذي لا يزال شائعًا اليوم في مصر والسودان، باهتمام كبير. المحادثة هي تسجيل نادر لمقابلة مع عليفة رفعت في القاهرة عام 1992.
📚 Veröffentlichungen u.a. / المنشورات وغيرها / Publications a.o.:
- Alifaa Rifaat: "Das Mädchen von Burdain." Unionsverlag, Zürich 1995.
- Alifa Rifaat: "Die zweite Nacht nach tausend Nächten." Edition Orient, Berlin 1991.
- Alifa Riffat: "Distant view of a minarett and other stories." Waveland Pr. Inc., Long Grove, Illinois 2014.
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