Ghada al-Samman

Ghada al-Samman was born in Damascus in 1942 into a bourgeois and conservative family. Her father presided over the Syrian University; her mother died when she was small, and she grew up beside him, between her taste for foreign literatures and her taste for the Arab heritage. She took a degree in English literature in Damascus in 1963, settled in Beirut, worked there as a journalist, married the publisher Bachir Daouk and founded her own publishing house in 1977. The war took her to Paris, where she has lived since the mid-eighties. She is regarded as one of the most widely read women novelists in the Arab world.

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• NovelBeirut '75بيروت 75Ghada al-Samman · 1975Literature