Hamida Na'na (born 1946) is a

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n writer and journalist. Her name also appears as Hamidah Nana.

Biography

She was born in

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and studied

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. She was employed as a journalist by the Syrian Ministry of Information. She then went to

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, where she worked for

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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. 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).

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