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The novelist Lina Houayan al-Hassan does not hesitate to give the issue of Arab women in general, and Syrian women in particular, her utmost attention to the restoration of their human identity... Although she is obviously concerned with this topic in her female capacity, like most writers and poets, she differs from them in most of her novels, in the way she approaches the story, which is characterized by exploring the depths of the feminist issue, not in terms of grievance, oppression and arbitrariness, nor in terms of romantic revelation, complaining or depression, although such feelings are not alien to her heroines, but she takes the path of the investigator and searcher for the roots of historical oppression embedded in the bottom of traditional Arab societies... In her new novel ”Ana Salma,” which was shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Prize, the author turns to young people to build a world of words that suits their passions and their endless fantasies.
