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house, it contains letters to Anne Frank, written by Hassan while travelling in Tunisia, Egypt and Palestine. Expressing "loss and anguish" , the work challenges common stereotypes about Jews held by Syrians and also "drawing connections between lived experience as a Kurd and that of Anne Frank’s as
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as examples of contemporary Syrian literature following the beginning of the Syrian revolution. The study posited "that in both works a real sense of home proves unattainable" and "that the unattainable sense of home depicted in the novels marks such texts as a part of the enduring legacy of the
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interpreted the novel as a "celebration of the Kurdish identity and as an apology for being forced to abandon it".
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and Paris, representing multi-layered and somewhat disparate Kurdish personalities. In his review for
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In 2005, Hassan was awarded a Hellman/Hammett grant for persecuted writers by
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Femmes d'Alep - De chair et de sang (Women of Aleppo - Of Flesh and Blood)
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A 2022 literary study investigated the "concept of home" in Hassan's
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After graduating from secondary school, Hassan acquired a
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for future translation. After Hassan's residency in
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The Munathara Initiative
Arabic
Aleppo
Syria
Syrian
Kurdish
Kurdish
Arabic
Paris
Bachelor of Laws
University of Aleppo
taboos
abortions
honour killings
Human Rights Watch
Amsterdam
Anne Frank
International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
Sawad Hussain
British Council
Anne Frank’s
maqam
Kurdish songs
Aleppo
ArabLit
Mohammed Said Hjiouij
"Home, identity, and place in Syrian literature: Maha Hassan's Drums of Love and Ghassan Jubbaʿi's Qahwat Al-General"
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