Hoda Ablan (born 1971) is a

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

i poet.Profile in Banipal magazine
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Ibb Ibb ( ar, إِبّ, ʾIbb) is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, located about northeast of Mocha and south of Sana'a. A market town and administrative centre developed during the Ottoman Empire, it is one of the most important ...

and studied at the

University of Sanaa Sana'a University ( ) was established in 1970 as the first and the primary university in the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen), now the Republic of Yemen (see also Aden University). It is located in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, and is currently o ...

, obtaining a master's degree in political science in 1993. Her first collection of poetry ''Wurud shaqiyat al-malamih'' (Roses with Mischievous Features) was published in

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in 1989. She has since published several other poetry collections. Her work has appeared in translation in several outlets including two issues of

Banipal ''Banipal'' is an independent literary magazine dedicated to the promotion of contemporary Arab literature through translations in English. It was founded in London in 1998 by Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon. The magazine is published three tim ...

magazine (issues 8 and 36). Her poetry was also anthologised in a 2001 collection titled ''The poetry of Arab women : a contemporary anthology'', edited by

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. Ablan has served as the secretary-general of the Yemeni Writers Union. She is married with children.

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