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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Asia "Khawla" Saeed Ramadan Abdel Hadi (1948) is a Jordanian-Palestinian novelist. She was born in the town of Salama near Jaffa . She grew up and studied high school in Al-Bireh , then studied one year of sociology at Damascus University , and one year of Arabic literature at Beirut Arab University , after which she left university. She moved to Kuwait and worked in journalism. She is a member of the Jordanian Writers Association and has many novels.
Her biography
She is Asia "Khawla" Saeed Ramadan Abdul Hadi. She was born in 1948 in the town of Salama near Jaffa. She finished her secondary education at Al-Bireh Secondary School in 1966. She studied one year of sociology at Damascus University , and one year of Arabic literature at Beirut Arab University . After that, she joined the Faculty of Law at the same university, but she did not complete her university studies and dropped out after three years of study. She
then moved to Kuwait and worked in a number of oil companies from 1966 to 1983. She worked in journalism and wrote a daily column in both Al- Qabas newspaper from 1978 to 1983, and the Jordanian newspaper Al-Aswaq during its publication and for 3 years. She is a member of the Jordanian Writers Association .
The critic Shaaban Abdul Hakim Muhammad described her as " committed in her novelistic writings to the cause of her homeland and the causes of the Arab person... "
Her works
From her novels:
“Love and Bread,” Arab Institute for Studies, Beirut, 2006 (ISBN 9789953368467)
“The Bitter Winter”, Dar Doroub and Dar Al-Yazouri Scientific, Amman, 2011 (ISBN 9789957790141)
“West of the Ocean,” Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing, 2012 ( ISBN 9786144190555 )
“Memories and Illusions,” Dar Al-Ayyam for Publishing and Distribution, 2015 (ISBN 9789957950316)
“Sadia”, Dar Al-Ayyam for Publishing and Distribution, 2016 (ISBN 9789957950873)
“The Great Dog State: Tales of a Global Age,” Now Publishers and Distributors, 2017 (ISBN 9789957625702)
“Tales of Rain,” Now Publishers and Distributors, 2020 (ISBN 9789923131459)
From her short story collections:
“Years of Death”, Al-Yazouri Scientific House, Amman, 2007
It also has:
“The Crying of the Gallows - A Palestinian Epic”, Dar Al-Ayyam for Publishing and Distribution, 2015 (ISBN 9789957950187)
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