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- Country of residence: Lebanon
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Nazik Saba Yared (born in Jerusalem in 1928) is a Palestinian-Lebanese novelist and academic. She has written many books in the field of literary criticism, as well as some novels and children's literature.
her life
Nazik Saba was born in Jerusalem in 1928, to a Palestinian accountant father, Iskandar Saba, and a Lebanese mother, Hala Maalouf. Her father enrolled her in the German school, refusing to enroll her in the British Mandate schools. However, the British closed the German school following the outbreak of the Second World War, so Nazik spent a year at home receiving English language lessons so that she could join the English section of the Saint Joseph Apparition School.
After Nazik obtained high school, her father, who had retired, was unable to enroll her in the American University of Beirut, but she received a scholarship from Fouad I University (currently Cairo) in 1945.
While Nazik was studying in Cairo, the Palestine war broke out, and her father and family were arrested. The father soon died months after his release, and was buried in an unknown location, and the rest of the family moved to Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Nazik obtained a BA in philosophy from Fouad I University, and worked as a teacher in an Egyptian school, before she was able to enter Lebanon at the end of 1949, where she married Ibrahim Yared, her former classmate at Fouad I University.
Nazik Saba Yared obtained a master’s degree from the American University of Beirut, then a doctorate from the same university. The title of her dissertation, which she discussed in 1976, was “Arab Travelers and the Civilization of the West in the Modern Arab Renaissance.” This thesis has been adopted as a reference by the Sorbonne University in France.
She taught at the French Evangelical College in Beirut, and then at the Lebanese American University. Some of her writings were decided upon for Lebanese schoolchildren in Arabic reading books. She is a member of the Lebanese Women Researchers Association since the mid-1990s.
her private life
Nazik Saba married Ibrahim Yared, whom she met while they were studying in Cairo, and they had three children.
Authors
The Circle Point (novel, 1983): It is her first novel.
Sharing on a lost chord (novel, 1992).
In the Astronomy of Abi Nawas (1997)
Beirut Days (a novel for young people, 2001)
Arab Travelers and Western Civilization in the Modern Arab Renaissance (2002).
Samer (a novel for young people, the International Book Company, 2009).
Illusions (a novel, Dar Al-Saqi, 2012)
The Curse (a novel, Arab House of Science - Publishers, 2014)
Yesterday Was Tomorrow (1989 Novel)
Loss (2017 novel by Hachette Antoine-Nofal)
Achievements and Awards
Awards
Knight Academic Order of Sa'fat (1979)
Prince Claus Award (1998)
Educational Authority Award for Children's Books (1997)
Lebanese Library Association Award (1999)
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