Fadwa (name)
Appearance
Fadwa (Arabic: فدوى) is an Arabic feminine name.
People
[edit]- Fadwa Al-Bouza (born 1990), Syrian athlete
- Fadwa Barghouti (born 1963), Palestinian poet
- Fadwa El Gallal, Libyan-American journalist
- Fadwa El Guindi (born 1941), Egyptian-American anthropologist
- Fadwa Garci (born 2002), Tunisian table tennis player
- Fadwa Hammoud, American lawyer
- Fadwa Obeid (1935–2022), American singer
- Fadwa Sidi Madane (born 1994), Moroccan athlete
- Fadwa Souleimane (1970–2017), Syrian actress
- Fadwa Taha (born 1955), Sudanese professor
- Fadwa Tuqan (1917–2003), Palestinian poet
Other uses
[edit]- Food and Fadwa (2012), a comedy drama, the first production of the Noor Theatre Company[1]
- "Le corps de Fadwa" (2012), a story by Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa[2]
- Fadwa Ali, a character in the Dorothy Gilman novel Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish (2021)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Four Arab American Plays : works by Leila Buck, Jamil Khoury, Yussef El Guindi, and Lameece Issaq & Jacob Kader. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. 2014. ISBN 978-0-7864-7486-8.
- ^ Ndiaye, El Hadji Malick; Sow, Moussa (2016-05-12). The Body in Francophone Literature: Historical, Thematic and Aesthetic Perspectives. McFarland. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-4766-2536-2.
- ^ Gilman, Dorothy (2021-02-04). Mrs Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish. Prelude Books. ISBN 978-1-78842-282-6.