Fadia Faqir (Arabic: فادية الفقير) is a Jordanian British author and academician, involved in human rights issues.
[1] Her first novel, Nisanit, published by Penguin in 1988, is set in two undisclosed Middle East countries, and recounts the story of a young girl whose father is arrested because of his political activities, and a Palestinian guerrilla fighter captured by the Israeli forces.
Set in colonial and postcolonial Jordan, according to one critic, the novel 'stands between East and West, and combines Arabic traditional storytelling with postmodern narrative tricks'.
[2] There is a strong feminist message concerning two Arab women, one a Bedouin, the other from the town, incarcerated in an asylum through the actions of their brother and husband respectively.
Faqir's work is written entirely in English and is the subject of much ongoing academic research and discussion,[4] particularly for its 'translation' of aspects of Arab culture.