Fatmma Salem Alhagi

Fatima al-Haji is a Libyan academic and novelist and member of the teaching faculty at Tripoli University, currently living in Tunis. She studied in the UK and Canada and is the author of three books on literary criticism: New Literary Criticism (1998), The Concept of Time in the Libyan Novel (1999), Fictional Discourse (2007, written in English and later published in Arabic) and a novel titled The Scream of the Ground Floor (2015). She has presented papers in several academic and literary conferences and has worked as a former assessor of the pieces appearing in Al-Hikma magazine, published by the philosophy department of the University of Al-Fatih, and the Al-Jil magazine for literary and intellectual studies published by the Jil Centre for Academic Research, Lebanon. From 1996 until 2000, she was on the judging panel assessing works published by the Libyan Writers' Union. She is the former head of the translation department at the General Foundation for Culture and is a member of the Libyan Writers' Union and Institute of Journalists.