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Hasiba Abd al-Rahman

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Hasiba Abd al-Rahman

Hasiba Abd al-Rahman is a Syrian poet and human rights activist. Her novel al-Sharnaqa (The Cocoon), based on her prison diaries and writing and published eight years after her release, is the first Syrian prison novel by a former female political prisoner.  

Articles by Hasiba Abd al-Rahman

The First Breaths of Freedom
By Hasiba Abd al-Rahman
Haven’t you missed the sun and rain and streets?During those long nights, didn’t you dream of these paths as you were eating ful and smoking? And how often did you torture yourself with thoughts…
Translated from Arabic by Shareah Taleghani
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