Hamida Nana

Hamida Na'na is a Syrian writer and journalist. Her name also appears as Hamidah Nana.

Biography

She was born in Idlib and studied Arabic at Damascus University. She was employed as a journalist by the Syrian [Ministry of Information]. She then went to Paris, where she worked for UNESCO and was a reporter for the Lebanese newspaper Al Safir.
In 1970, she published Anashid imra'a la ta'rif al-farah, a collection of poems. She published the novel al-Watan fi-l-'Aynan in 1979 and then the novel Man Yajru ala al-Shawq in 1989.
She also published a collection of interviews Hiwarat ma`a Mofakiri al-Gharb and two works of political non-fiction: al-Subh al-Dami fi Adan and Tunis al-'aqi zaman al-'asifa .