Lemya Shammat

Lemya Shammat is an essayist, short story writer, and critic. She has a PhD in English language and linguistics from the University of Khartoum and is an assistant professor at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A member of the Sudanese Writers Union, Shammat has published a book on literary criticism and discourse analysis as well as a collection of short-short stories. She also translates between English and Arabic.