Veil of shame: the role of women in the contemporary fiction of North Africa and the Arab world (1978); received the International Educator's Award Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East (1990) Des femmes, des hommes et la guerre: Fiction et Realite au Proche-Orient (1993); received the France-Lebanon Literary Award Voyages en cancer (2000); received the Prix Phenix de Literature; English version The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys Through Cancer (2001)[5]