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Princess Ghida Talal was born 11 July 1963 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Hany Salam and Raja'a Arab. She is the eldest of four children. The Salam family is a politically prominent family in Lebanon.
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Raised in the conservative society of Damascus, she encountered challenges that shaped her literary voice. She published her first book of short stories,Your Eyes Are My Destiny (Arabic: عيناك قدري), in 1962, which was moderately successful. Initially, she was categorized alongside traditional feminine writers.
Inside Story is a daily news programme broadcast by Al Jazeera English.The programme provides analysis and commentary on recent news stories and is modeled after Mā Warā’ al-Khabar (Arabic: ما وراء الخبر; Behind the News) on the sister channel, Al Jazeera (Arabic).
Beirut Nightmares (1976) is a novel written by Syrian author Ghada al-Samman.It was translated to several languages, including Russian (1987) and Polish (1984). [1] The novel covers cultural, societal, political, religious, and psychological aspects, in addition to fantasy and magical realism through hallucinations, involving symbolism as a way to explain these aspects.
The English version of the book is studied as part of literature courses at both University of California at Berkeley and Chicago University, and Kana'nah himself taught the study of the book in the masters programs at Bir Zeit University. Some of the folk tales from Speak, Bird, Speak Again have been used in other collections/books:
For addicts, cravings override all normal rules of behavior. In interviews throughout Northern Kentucky, addicts and their families described the insanity that takes hold. Some addicts shared stories of shooting up behind the wheel while driving down Interstate 75 out of Cincinnati, or pulling over at an early exit, a Kroger parking lot.
The novel opens with the main characters’, Khalil and his wife (Kifa), house getting bombed, after the murder of their daughter (Wedad) in the Lebanese Civil War. [3] The two characters and their sons run away to Switzerland after the Israeli colonization of the Lebanese lands and the civil war.