Hamida Nana
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Hamida Na'na (born 1946) is a Syrian writer and journalist. Her name also appears as Hamidah Nana.
Biography
She was born in Idlib and studied Arabic at Damascus University. She was employed as a journalist by the Syrian Ministry of Information. She then went to Paris, where she worked for UNESCO and was a reporter for the Lebanese newspaper Al Safir.
In 1970, she published Anashid imra'a la ta'rif al-farah (Hymns of a joyless woman), a collection of poems. She published the novel al-Watan fi-l-'Aynan (The Homeland) in 1979 and then the novel Man Yajru ala al-Shawq (Who dares to yearn) in 1989.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NOyZs4PRKxEC&pg=PA231 |title=Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing |page=231 |last=Miller |first=Jane Eldridge |year=2002 |isbn=0415159814}}
She also published a collection of interviews Hiwarat ma`a Mofakiri al-Gharb (Conversations with Western Thinkers) (1989) and two works of political non-fiction: al-Subh al-Dami fi Adan (Bloody morning in Aden) (1988) and Tunis al-'aqi zaman al-'asifa (Tunisia: of reason in the time of the storm) (1997).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN-OBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT462 |title=Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 |pages=462–63 |last=Ashour |first=Radwa |author2=Ghazoul, Ferial |year=2008 |isbn=978-1617975547}}
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Category:20th-century Syrian poets
Category:Syrian non-fiction writers
Category:Syrian women journalists
Category:20th-century Syrian women writers
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