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Christiane Lamourette

كريستيان لاموريت

Notable figure b. 1943 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 944 · Second source: IdRef (Sudoc) authority record 244283974: Lamourette, Christiane

From France; worked in Tunisia, Syria and Egypt

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Literary scholar of Taha Husayn and Ibn Zaydun

Biography

Born in Marignier (Haute-Savoie), she studied at the School of Oriental Languages in Paris, took the licence in Arabic literature at Tunis and Paris (1968) and the agrégation in Arabic (1970). She taught in Tunis, was resident at the French Institute of Arab Studies in Damascus (1973–75) and at the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo from 1977. She wrote on the themes of the ghazal in Ibn Zaydun's Diwan, and on Taha Husayn and literary life in Cairo between the two wars (1978).