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Maha Hassan is a
Maha Hassan is a Syrian
Syrians ( ar, سُورِيُّون, ''Sūriyyīn'') are an Eastern Mediterranean ethnic group indigenous to the Levant. They share common Levantine Semitic roots. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indi ...
- Kurdish journalist and novelist. She was born in Aleppo
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. A native Kurdish speaker, she writes in Arabic. In 2000, she was banned from publishing in her native Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
for her "morally condemnable" writing, and since August 2004, she has been living in self-imposed exile in Paris.
In 2005, she was awarded a Hellman/Hammett grant for persecuted writers by Human Rights Watch. In 2007-2008, Hassan lived for a year at the invitation of Amsterdam Vluchtstad in the renovated apartment of Anne Frank and her family at the Amsterdam Merwedeplein.
Hassan's novels ''Habl suri'' (''Umbilical Cord'', 2011) and ''al-Rawiyat'' (''The Novels'', 2014) and were longlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize. In 2021, her novel ''The Neighbourhood of Wonder'' was shortlisted for the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
Bibliography
* ''The Infinite: Biography of the Other'' * ''The Picture on the Cover'' * ''Hymns of Nothingness'' * ''The Tunnel of Existence'' * ''Daughters of the Wilderness'' * ''Habl suri'' (''Umbilical Cord 2011)'' * ''al-Rawiyat (The Novels 2014)'' *''Metro Halab'' (''Aleppo Subway,'' 2017) *''Amat sabahan ayatuha al-harb'' (2018). *''The Neighbourhood of Wonder''References
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