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Sahar Mandour
Novelist

Sahar Mandour

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Writing 32 and novels about life in Beirut.

32 · Mina

Born
1977
Birthplace
Beirut

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Sahar Mandour

Sahar Mandour is a Lebanese-Egyptian writer whose fiction explores relationships and urban life.

Early life

Education

Studied psychology at Saint Joseph University in Beirut.

Career

  1. 2007

    First novel

    Published I’ll Draw a Star on Vienna’s Forehead.

  2. 2010

    32

    Published her novel of women’s friendships in Beirut.

Selected work

32

A novel about friendship amid the city’s pleasures and uncertainties.

Mina

A later novel.

Beyond work

Journalism

Worked as a journalist alongside her fiction.

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