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Zabya Khamis al-Muslimani was born in Dubai. From 1975 until 1980 she studied philosophy, political science, and literature at Indiana University; from 1982 to 1989 she studied in London.[1] She was arrested and jailed in Abu Dhabi in 1987 for publishing “transgressive poetry”;[2] as a result, she has lived in Egypt since 1989.[3] Her writing has been anthologized in English.[4]