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Betool Khedairi (born 27 November 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a novelist born to an Iraqi father and Scottish mother.[1][2] She is most known for her debut novel, A Sky So Close which has been published in numerous languages such as Arabic, English, Italian, French and Dutch. The novel was first published in Lebanon in 1999 and is often used as the subject of literary critique studies in various international universities.

Betool Khedairi
Born1965

She received a BAinFrench literature in 1988 from the University of MustansiriyainBaghdad, and then she used to divide her time between Iraq, Jordan and the United Kingdom while working in her family's business; in the food industry.

She lived in Iraq until she was 24 and now resides in Amman, Jordan.

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Absent has been described by Susan Comfort[3] as a novel that features subjective stories about the effects of oil extraction, focusing on gender violence and women's survival, in Iraq during periods of war.

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  1. ^ "Comment, opinion and discussion from the Guardian US". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  • ^ "Betool Khedairi | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  • ^ Comfort, Susan (18 March 2020). "Resource Wars and Resourceful Resistance: Gender Violence and Irreal Oil Environments in Two Global Novels by Women". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 66 (1): 20–51. doi:10.1353/mfs.2020.0001. ISSN 1080-658X.
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