The Homeland by Hamida Na’na
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Overview: Nadia rebels against the traditional role cast for women in the Arab world and joins the Palestinian resistance movement. However, she soon becomes disillusioned by their tactics and emigrates to France. The author shows the conflict between the individual and the military establishment.
Born and educated in Syria, Hamida Nana (حميدة نعنع) began her literary career in 1971, the same year she graduated from Damascus University. Anashid li Imra’a la Ta’rif al-Farah (Anthems for a Woman Who Does Not Know Happiness) was Na’na’s first book of poems.
A postgraduate degree in literature and Islamic studies from the Sorbonne was followed by three years of work for UNESCO. Na’na’s subsequent work as a journalist as head of the European and North Africa bureau at as-Safir newspaper led to her interviewing a number of prominent thinkers and writers. These interviews with Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Aime Cesaire, Octavio Paz, and Leopold Senghor were published in 1990 in a book entitled Hiwarat ma’ Mufakiri al-Gharb (Debates with Western Thinkers).
Genre:Fiction; Contemporary, Historic, Drama, Arab Literature
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