Widad Sakakini

Widad Sakakini was born in 1913 in Sidon, on the Lebanese coast, and graduated from the Islamic Makassed college in Beirut. At nineteen she published a first book of thoughts and articles, taught for about ten years, then lived in Syria and Egypt with her husband, the writer Zaki al-Mahasini. She left five story collections, two novels published in Cairo, and about ten studies, on the place of women, on figures of the Nahda and on a Lebanese woman writer whose name she did not want to see lost. She died in Damascus in 1991.

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• Short storiesمرايا الناسWidad Sakakini · 1945not translated into EnglishLiterature