Samman, Gada

Gada al-Samman was born in Damascus , in an intelligent family, received her secondary education in a damask French lyceum ^[3] . She studied English literature at Damascus University , then continued her education at the American University of Beirut . The dissertation, material for which as-Samman collected in London and other European cities, was devoted to English literature ^[4] . In 1964, she returned to Damascus and began teaching at Damascus University , whose rector at that time was her father Ahmad as-Samman ^[5] . Received her doctorate at Cairo University ^[6] .

Gada al-Samman is the author of several collections of poems, 6 collections of short stories, 5 novels, and a number of books of a journalistic and memoir character ^[7] . The first book of Gada al-Samman, “Your eyes are my destiny”, was published in Beirut in 1962, and brought her fame in the literary circles of Syria and Lebanon . True popularity (9 reprints) came to this book of hers after Gada herself became famous. In 1975, she published her masterpiece Beirut'75, a novel that, "according to critics and readers, seemed to predict the events of the Lebanese war of 1975 - 1990. " ^[8] . A year later, she published the book Beirut Nightmares, dedicated to the horrors of the Civil War that Gada herself witnessed. By the 1980s, al-Samman was already considered one of the best contemporary writers in the Arab world, by the 1990s, her works began to appear in English and French translations ^[9] .

• Your eyes are my fate (عيناك قدري - 'Ainak kadri ), 1962
• There is no sea in Beirut (لا بحر في بيروت - La Bahr fi Beirut ), 1963
• Night of the Aliens (ليل الغرباء - Leyl-ul-guraba ' ), 1966
• The death of the old harbors (رحيل المرافئ القديمة - Rachel al-marafiya 'al-Kadima ), 1973
• Love (حب - Hubb ), 1973
• Beirut'75 (بيروت 75), 1976
• I declared love to you (اعلنت عليك الحب- A'alyantu 'alayka-l-hubb ), 1976
• Beirut Nightmares (كوابيس بيروت - Kawabis Beirut ), 1977
• The time of another love (زمن الحب الاخر - Zaman-ul-hubb-il-ahar ), 1978
• Body - Travel Bag (الجسد حقيبة سفر - Al-Jasad Hakibat Safar ), 1979
• Swimming in the lake of shaitan (السباحة في بحيرة الشيطان - al-Sibaha fi buherati-sh-shaitan ), 1979
• The wax seal of memory (ختم الذاكرة بالشمع الاحمر - Hathmu-z-zakira bi sham'i-l-ahmar ), 1979
• The arrest of the escaped instant (اعتقال لحظة هاربة - I'atikal ljahza hariba ), 1979
• Citizen implicated in reading (مواطنة متلبسة بالءةرا М - Muvatyna mutalyabbisa b-l-kira ' ), 1979
• The tortilla beats like a heart (الرغيف ينبض كالقلب - ar-Ragif yanbad kya-l-kalb ), 1979
• Ain, Gayn, take a closer look (ع غ تتفس - Ain, Gayn Tatafarras ), 1980
• A whistle of alarm in my head (صفارة انذار داخل رأسي - Saffarat Inzar Dahil Ra'si ), 1980
• Optional letters (كتبات غير ملتزمة - Kitabat geyr multazima ), 1980
• Love from Vienna to Vein (الحب من الوريد الى الوريد - al-Khub min al-warid ilya-l-warid ), 1981
• The tribe interrogates the murdered woman (القبيلة تستجوب القتيلة - al-Kabilya tastajvibu-l-katilya ), 1981
• Billion Night (ليلة مليار - Leilat Billion ), 1986
• The sea judges fish (البحر يحاكم سمكة - al-Bahr yuhakim samaka ), 1986
• Occupied Depths (الاعماق المحتلة - al-A'amak al-mukhtalla ), 1987
• Witness the reverse wind (اشهد عكس الريح - Ushhud 'ax ar-rih ), 1987
• Square moon, 1994
• In love with the inkwell (عاشقة في المحبرة - 'Ashika fi-l-mahbara ), 1995
• An absurd romance. Damask mosaic, 1997
• Eternity is an instant of love (الابدية لحظة حب - al-Abadiyah lyahzat hubb ), 1999
• Masquerade of the Dead, 2003

• Nightmares of Beirut, M., Rainbow, 1987.

• Zakaria Tamer
• Kolet Khuri
• Hannah Mina

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• Biographies and bibliography of Gada al-Samman (in Arabic)