Alawiya Sobh

Alawiya Sobh is writer, journalist and chief editor of the bestselling women's magazine Al- Hasnaa since 1986. Maryam, Keeper of Stories, published originally in Arabic in 2002 won the Sultan Taboos Prize in 2006. Her novel It's Called Love was longlisted for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. She lives in Beirut.