SARAH TALEB EL-SOUHAIL

THE ARAB WRITER / SARAH TALEB EL-SOUHAIL
LITERAL AND SCIENTIFIC LIFE

Sarah Taleb Al-Souhail is a simple human being, linked to land and nature, has social nature, adventurer; likes to travel and learn from the others experiences and cultures as well. She has got a great interest in reading -because it is the key to everything-, She is from (Tmimah) Iraqi tribal assets linked to land and roots, in spite of the contemporary modern life and the hard times She is experiencing.
۞ Her father is an Iraqi ;Sheikh /Taleb al-Sohail. She was born in Jordan and studied at its schools and completed her university education in London and later studied in Cairo.
Concerning that she had been born with a tendencies and penchants for literature, poetry and reading, she said:
" Since my childhood, I loved literature, I was encouraged by my father to that, he used to buy me stories and novels that promote patriotism, and some literary works of great writers in both of the Arab countries and the world, in addition to that; my mother also encouraged me and used to take me to the library.
I started at an early age to write childrens stories and I was habitual to gather all my nieces, nephews and young children of my relatives to read to them what I write of stories and hence Ive been associating with writing for children, where my writings were admired by whom I read to, therefore some kind of strong- link and mutual trust have been created between me and the children, I was attracted to this beautiful world `childhood world`, consequently I found
myself living their beautiful innocence in the meanwhile. I do not deny that my writings and defending the children were stemmed from my sympathetic feelings for our children in Iraq and Palestine, which I expressed it through the story of "Pearl and the Land" by expressing the Palestinian issue and the children of Palestine.

Some poetical works:-
♣Divan of "Saheel Kohila" of 2000 includes poetry in colloquial overwhelmed by Gulf dialect.
♣Divan "Nejmet Sohail" released in 2002 includes poetry in classical Arabic language.
♣Divan " Demaa Ala Ataab Baghdad " (Tear on thresholds of Baghdad) released in 2005, through it I expressed my sufferings for my nation Iraq and its people, who suffered a lot, this divan included my thrived literary status in Cairo and the impacts of its reflection on my poetical experience.
♣Talking about the books in press, theres one which collects her articles which she wrote in all the Arab and foreign countries. She writes a weekly article in "AL Watan Al Arabi", some other in-print and electronic newspaper . She also wrote in Al-Ahram, Al Gomhoria, Al-Hayat (London) and Asharq Alawsat Newspaper. Her first article had been published in Al-Hayat in addition to some other newspapers as: Asharq Alawsat and Al-Quds Newspaper, plus many other articles in many Iraqi newspapers which are issued abroad, also the last page article in some Arab magazines like "Al-Watan Al-Arabi" magazine.