Maryana Marrash Writer

Maryana bint Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic: مريانا بنت فتح الله بن نصرالله مرّاش / ALA-LC: Maryānā bint Fatḥ Allāh bin Naṣrallāh Marrāsh; 1848–1919), also known as Maryana al-Marrash al-Halabiya, was a Syrian writer and poet of the Nahda movement—the Arabic renaissance. She revived the tradition of literary salons in the Middle East and was the first Syrian woman to publish a collection of poetry. She may have been the first woman to write in the Arab daily newspapers.

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Maryana Marrash
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1848
Birth nameMaryana bint Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash
Birth place
Aleppo , Ottoman Syria
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1919
Place of death
Aleppo , Ottoman Syria
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Al-Nahda

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