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She was born in Idlib and studied Arabic at Damascus University.
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Hamida Nana
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Her name also appears as Hamidah Nana. She was employed as a journalist by the Syrian Ministry of Information. She then went to Paris, where she worked for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and was a reporter for the Lebanese newspaper First Rate (at Lloyd's) 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 Manitoba 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).
