Salwa Al Neimi was born in Damascus, Syria.
During the mid-1970s she moved in Paris where she studied Islamic Philosophy and Theatre at the Sorbonne. Beginning in 1981 she worked as a journalist at Arab magazines and newspapers.
She has published five volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and the erotic novel The Proof of the Honey, which has been translated to several languages and banned in many Arab countries.
Al Neimi currently lives in Paris where she works at the Institut du Monde Arabe.
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