Iman Mersal

Iman Mersal was born in Mit Adlaw, a small village in the northern Nile delta in Egypt. She studied Arabic literature at the University of Masura and moved to Cairo in 1988. In 1998 she obtained her Ph.D. from Cairo University with a dissertation on the role of mystical ideas and notions in modern Arabic poetry. In January 1999 she moved to Edmonton, Canada, where she teaches Arabic at the University of Alberta.