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The book was so successful that plans are underway to make the story into a film, whilst Rajaa is nominated for the 2009 Dublin Literary Award.
Al-Sanea grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of a family of doctors. She currently lives in Chicago where she is a dental graduate student. She received her bachelor’s degree in Dentistry from King Saud University on 2005.
From 2005-2006, Dr. al-Sanea did residencies at the National Guard Hospital, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and the King Khalid University Hospital.
Rajaa’s interests lie in reading and writing novels and her book, “Girls of Riyad,” was published in June 2007 by the Penguin Group.
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- Legal name: Rajaa Alsanea
- Birthdate: 1981 (age 31)
- Birthplace: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Nationality: Saudi
- Gender: Female
- Official Website: http://www.rajaa.net/
- Genres: Biography
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Rajaa al-Sanea is a Muslim writer from Saudi who became famous through her bestselling novel Girls of Riyadh, or Banat al-Riyadh. The book was first published in Lebanon in 2005 and in English in 2007 and is unconventional for its use of emails to tell the story. Her book caused a lot of controversy when it was first published, and was banned by the government in Saudi. So strong was opposition to this book that the author received death threats for bringing her nation’s women into disrepute. Girls of Riyadh highlights many problems faced by Muslim women in Saudi Arabia.
The book was so successful that plans are underway to make the story into a film, whilst Rajaa is nominated for the 2009 Dublin Literary Award.
Al-Sanea grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of a family of doctors. She currently lives in Chicago where she is a dental graduate student. She received her bachelor’s degree in Dentistry from King Saud University on 2005.
From 2005-2006, Dr. al-Sanea did residencies at the National Guard Hospital, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and the King Khalid University Hospital.
Rajaa’s interests lie in reading and writing novels and her book, “Girls of Riyad,” was published in June 2007 by the Penguin Group.
