Maryana Marrash

Maryana Marrash was born in 1848 in Aleppo, into an old Melkite merchant family inclined to letters, one of whose relatives had been killed in a quarrel between Catholics and Orthodox. Educated at home and then in the mission schools, she plays the oud and the qanun, sings on occasion, and is counted among the first women to write in the Arabic newspapers. She marries Habib Ghadban and holds a circle in her home where poets, musicians and people from the consulates meet. Two of her brothers were men of the Nahda. She dies in Aleppo in 1919.

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• Poetryبنت فكرMaryana Marrash · 1893not translated into EnglishLiterature