Ghada al-Samman

Ghadah Al-Samman
Native name
غادة السمّان
Born1942 (age 82–83)
Damascus, Syria
OccupationNovelist, journalist
LanguageArabic, English, French
Notable worksNo Sea in Beirut
The Departure of Old Ports
Beirut Nightmares

Ghadah Al-Samman (Arabic: غادة السمّان; born 1942) is a Syrian writer, journalist and novelist born in Damascus in 1942 to a prominent and conservative Damascene family. Her father was Ahmed Al-Samman, a president of the University of Damascus. She is distantly related to poet Nizar Qabbani, and was deeply influenced by him after her mother died at a very young age.

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