Tamirace Fakhoury

Tamirace Fakhoury is a Lebanese poet born in Beit Chabab, Mount Lebanon. Tamirace published her first poetry book The country of the Emperor and the Lost Child at the age of nine. Then, throughout the years, she published four poetry books in French at Dar An Nahar, Beirut. (Aubades, 1996 ; Contre-marées, 2000 ; Poème absent, 2004; Hémisphères, 2008). Her poems are published in various Arab and Francophone journals in Lebanon, Europe and Canada.

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• Selected publications in journals
• Selected poetry appearances
• References

Selected for Les Belles Étrangères in France in 2007, Tamirace writes poetry that captures the fragmentation of geography and identity in post-war societies.

Tamirace holds a Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the University of Freiburg in Germany. She completed a research fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She was also a visiting scholar at the University of California campus located in Berkeley, California. Tamirace earned the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2014 at the German Institute of International and Area Studies in Hamburg, Germany. She is currently a professor at the Lebanese American University in Byblos, Lebanon.