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Huda al-Daghfaq

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Huda al-Daghfaq
هدى الدغفق
Born1967
EducationKing Saud University
Occupation(s)Poet, journalist
Years active1993 - today
Known forSaudi feminism and poetry
Notable workأشق البرقع أرى، (I Tear the Burqa to See)

Huda Abdullah Al-Daghfaq, in Arabic: هدى الدغفق (born 1967) is a Saudi Arabian poet and journalist, who is also a prominent feminist. She supports the removal of guardianship from women and emphasises the importance of women as social and political decision-makers. Her memoir I Tear the Burqa to See was described as an autobiography that described the "existential battle" between her poetry and her cultural background

Biography

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Al-Daghfaq was born in 1967.[1] She earned a BA in Arabic Language from the University of Riyadh in 1989.[1] After graduation she taught in secondary schools, but during this period, because of her poetry she was accused of modernism - which in Saudi Arabia at that time came with accusations of atheism.[2] She published her first collection, The Upward Shadow, in 1993.[3] Volumes of her poetry have been translated into several languages.[2] She has published two memoirs, the first when she was forty years old.[2] She experiments with form in her autobiographical writing.[4] Also a journalist, al-Daghfaq is one of several Saudi women poets who work in that field, others include Khadeeja al-Amri, Fawziyya Abu Khalid and Ashjan al-Hindi (ar).[5]

Al-Daghfaq is a prominent Saudi feminist.[6] She supports the removal of guardianship from women and emphasises the importance of women as social and political decision-makers.[7] She has also suggested that Saudi feminists are leaders in the region.[8] At the Jeddah Literary Club, Al-Daghfaq drew controversy as she crossed the division between areas of the meeting segregated by gender and recited her poetry to both men and women.[9]

Reception

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Al-Daghfaq's writing is part of a tradition of Saudi women poets that began in the 1970s.[10] Her 1993 collection The Upward Shadow is a significant work in this period.[10] Her works in from have been compared to those of Sara al-Kathlan, Ashjan al-Hindi, Latifa Qari, Salwa Khamis and Iman al-Dabbagh.[10] She is one of a number of Saudi prose poets.[11] Her work has been compared to that of Fawziyya Abu Khalid, Muhammed al-Dumaini and Ghassan al-Khunazi.[12] Her memoir I Tear the Burqa to See was described by academic Wasfy Yassin Abbas as an autobiography that described the "existential battle" between her poetry and her cultural background.[13]

Selected works

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  • الظل إلى أعلى (The Upward Shadow) - 1993[3]
  • لهفة جديدة (New Yearning) - 2002
  • سهرت إلى قدري (I stayed up late for my destiny) - 2006
  • امرأة لم تكن (A Woman Who Wasn't) - 2008[14]
  • ريشة لاتطير ، مختارات من ثلاث مجموعاتها شعرية، (A Feather Doesn't Fly) - 2008[15]
  • بحيرة وجهي (My Face Lake) - 2008
  • أشق البرقع أرى، (I Tear the Burqa to See) - 2012[16]
  • أنشر قلبي على حبل الغسيل (Spread my heart on the clothesline) - 2014
  • أربي ظلي على العصيان (I raise my shadow to disobey) - 2017

References

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  1. ^ a b "هدى عبدالله الدغفق - ديوان العرب". Diwan al Arab. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  2. ^ a b c "السعودية هدى الدغفق: خسرت كثيرا لأجل الكتابة – مجلة التكوين". Al Takween Magazine. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  3. ^ a b "تراجم سعودية". Al Jazirah. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  4. ^ العنزى, عبير بنت مدو بن مرفوع (2025-01-01). "السيرة الذاتية النسائية السعودية: الوظائف والأهداف. هدى الدغفق أنموذجا Saudi women's CV: jobs and goals. Hoda Al-Daghfaq is a model". المجلة العلمية بکلية الآداب (in Arabic). 2025 (58): 1181–1192. doi:10.21608/jartf.2025.406412. ISSN 2735-3672.
  5. ^ Al-Khalaf, Hailah Abdullah (2019-05-04). "Feminist voices in Saudi folk tales: analysis of three folk tales retold by Abdulkareem al-Juhayman". Middle Eastern Studies. 55 (3): 374–385. doi:10.1080/00263206.2018.1520101. ISSN 0026-3206.
  6. ^ ""هدى الدغفق" سعودية تصل للعالمية بكتب شعرية مترجمة لأربع لغات". Jamila. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  7. ^ "بين مؤيد ومعارض لها.. هذه قصة الحركات النسوية في الخليج | الخليج أونلاين". Al Khaleej Online. 2020-03-30. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  8. ^ "جريدة الجريدة الكويتية | هدى الدغفق: القصيدة تظلّ قاصرة عن القفز فوق الواقع". Al Jarida. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  9. ^ "جريدة الأخبار". Al Akhbar. 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
  10. ^ a b c Ashour, Radwa; Ghazoul, Ferial; Reda-Mekdashi, Hasna (2008-11-01). Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-1-61797-554-7.
  11. ^ Jayyusi, Salma (2006-04-28). Beyond the Dunes: An Anthology of Modern Saudi Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-85771-087-1.
  12. ^ Maisel, Sebastian; Shoup, John A. (2009-02-17). Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab States Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Arab States [2 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-313-34443-5.
  13. ^ عباس, وصـفی یاسـین (2020-07-01). "کتابة الذات بین المجابهة والمکاشفة قراءةٌ ثقافیةٌ فی (أشقّ البرقع أرى)". مجلة البحث العلمی فی الآداب (in Arabic). 21 (5): 145–170. doi:10.21608/jssa.2020.119124. ISSN 2356-833X.
  14. ^ Daġfaq, Hudā ad-; Dīyāb, Ṣāliḥ (2008). Imraʾa ...! Lam ... takun: šiʿr (Ṭabʿa 1 ed.). Bairūt: Dār al-Fārābī. ISBN 978-9953-71-296-3.
  15. ^ Daġfaq, Hudā ad-; Terán, Ignacio Guitiérrez (2008). Buḥairat waǧhī: šiʿr (Ṭabʿa 1 ed.). Bairūt: Dār al-Fārābī. ISBN 978-9953-71-295-6.
  16. ^ Daġfaq, Hudā ad- (2011). Ašuqqu al-burquʿ .. arā (aṭ-Ṭabʿa 1 ed.). Bairūt: Ǧadāwil li-n-Našr wa-'t-Tauzīʿ. ISBN 978-614-418-097-6.
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