She collaborated in writing the screenplay for the film “Here Comes the Rain”, which was based on her academic research on families of those who disappeared during the Lebanese civil war.
Humaydan has also edited a collection of 15 short stories about Beirut entitled Beirut Noir, translated into English and published in 2015 by the New York publisher Akashic Books. She aims to make women writers’ voices audible. Her writings tackle post-war and gender issues, memory, identity, language and migration. Her last novel, The Weight of Paradise, won the Katara Prize, and its French translation was shortlisted for the 2017 Prix de la littérature arabe awarded by the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. These have been translated into many international languages most recently, Armenian and Georgian. She has worked in the field of cultural journalism and published four novels: B as in Beirut, Wild Mulberries, Other Lives and The Weight of Paradise.
She is the co-founder and current President of PEN Lebanon, and a board member of PEN International. Iman Humaydan is a Lebanese writer, researcher and academic.
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