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Noha Abdullah Samara ( 1944 - June 1 , 1992 ) was a Palestinian writer, novelist, and journalist . She was born in the city of Tulkarm , Palestine . She is considered one of the pioneers of the Palestinian feminist literary movement.
Its origins
Noha Abdullah Samara was born in the Palestinian city of Tulkarm in 1944 , and she grew up in the middle of a political family in Tulkarm ; She is the daughter of the Palestinian nationalist politician Abdullah Samara, a member of the Palestinian Arab Congress from Tulkarm and one of the most prominent figures of the Palestinian Arab Party .
Her literary life
Noha Samara moved to the Lebanese capital, Beirut , accompanied by her father, who was forced to leave Palestine due to his political activity against Israel . There in Lebanon , Noha worked in cultural and women’s journalism since 1962. She edited on various cultural issues and women’s affairs and wrote narrative works in many newspapers. Lebanese newspapers such as An-Nahar , Al-Muharrer newspaper , and others, and before the outbreak of the Naksa War in 1967 , Samara visited her country, Palestine , accompanied by her friend Hanan Al-Sheikh .
In 1973 , Samara published her first novel, “In the City of the Swamp,” which attracted the attention of critics and readers. In 1975, she was forced to leave Lebanon following the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War , heading to the Qatari capital , Doha , carrying with her her two children from her husband from the “Saidawi” family, whom she married in Lebanon . After a year, I moved from Doha to London , where I stayed for two years, then I moved to the French capital, Paris .
She then moved to Cyprus , where she worked as head of the society and women’s section in the cultural magazine “Al-Shahed” and wrote in this magazine for eight consecutive years, and she also wrote in several Arab magazines, including Doha Magazine .
In Lebanon , Samara directly influenced, literary and socially, several writers and writers, including the Syrian writer Ghada Al-Samman , and the Lebanese novelist Hanan Al -Sheikh , Hanan Al-Sheikh’s beginnings in the field of writing came After being directly influenced by her friend Samara in Lebanon , Al-Sheikh says: “At the age of fourteen, I noticed that my friend at school, Noha Samara, who later became a Palestinian writer, was writing on the youth page of Al-Seyassah newspaper, so I started writing, too.”
Samara was one of the most prominent Palestinian writers, along with Natalie Handal , Jane Saeed Makdisi , Adeniya Shibli , Laila Al-Atrash , Naomi Shihab Nye , Nibal Thawabteh , Salma Al-Dabbagh , Huzama Habayeb , and Randa Jarrar, to whom, along with Samara, the book “An Anthology of Palestinian Women Writers” was dedicated. Published in 2006 in English.
Her writings
She has a number of books, the most notable of which are:
“In the City of the Swamp,” published by New Horizons Publishing House in Beirut , 1973 .
“The tables lived longer than one secretary,” published by New Horizons Publishing House in Beirut , 1981 .
“The Arab Woman: An Optimistic View,” published by Al-Ma’arif Foundation for Printing and Publishing in Beirut , in 1993 , and it was published after her death.
She participated in writing the book “Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women,” published in English by Telegram Publishing House in London , in 2006 .
Her death
Noha Samara died on Monday, June 1 , 1992 in London after a struggle with cancer , and was buried in London .
She was mourned by a number of Palestinian, Lebanese and Arab literary figures, as was Lebanese novelist Hanan Al-Sheikh, saying: “I was sad when I remembered a lot after her death... The death of a friend is more difficult than the death of family.”
Honoring her
In honor and appreciation of Noha Samara, after her death, a party was held in her honor on June 27, 1992 at “Dar Al-Nadwa” in the Lebanese capital, Beirut .
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