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LONDON: At first, readers of “In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat,” a book by Egyptian poet, translator and academic Iman Mersal, may take it as a straightforward biography. But as the book unfolds, it reveals its multiple layers, asking questions about the notion of archiving, women’s writing, and mental illness. Al-Zayyat committed suicide in 1963 after battling depression and struggling to get her first and only novel, “Love and Silence,” published. That did eventually happen, but only four years after her death. “I started with a very simple question about ‘Love and Silence,’” Mersal, who first read Al-Zayyat’s book in 1993, tells Arab News. “Who wrote it? Who is Enayat Al-Zayyat? And why was the novel excluded from the canon of Arabic literature? This was the simple question behind my book.

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