About: Maha Hassan

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Maha Hassan is a Syrian-Kurdish journalist and novelist. She was born in Aleppo. A native Kurdish speaker, she writes in Arabic. In 2000, she was banned from publishing in her native Syria 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 in the renovated apartment of Anne Frank and her family at the Amsterdam Merwedeplein.

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  • مها حسن هي صَحَفِيَّة ورِوائِيّة سورية. وُلِدَت في حلب. رُشِحت روايتان لها ضمن القائمة الطويلة للجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية، وهي رواية حبل سرّي في عام 2011 ورواية الراويات في عام 2015. (ar)
  • Maha Hassan is a Syrian-Kurdish journalist and novelist. She was born in Aleppo. A native Kurdish speaker, she writes in Arabic. In 2000, she was banned from publishing in her native Syria 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 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. (en)
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  • مها حسن هي صَحَفِيَّة ورِوائِيّة سورية. وُلِدَت في حلب. رُشِحت روايتان لها ضمن القائمة الطويلة للجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية، وهي رواية حبل سرّي في عام 2011 ورواية الراويات في عام 2015. (ar)
  • Maha Hassan is a Syrian-Kurdish journalist and novelist. She was born in Aleppo. A native Kurdish speaker, she writes in Arabic. In 2000, she was banned from publishing in her native Syria 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 in the renovated apartment of Anne Frank and her family at the Amsterdam Merwedeplein. (en)
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  • مها حسن (ar)
  • Maha Hassan (en)
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