Daughters of the Same Secret

Haneen Al-Sayegh is an award-winning Lebanese poet and novelist born in 1986 in Mount Lebanon. She studied English Literature at the American University of Beirut and works as a lecturer and translator. She has published three poetry books and was awarded the prestigious Naji Naaman Literary Award. Her debut novel was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. She lives in Beirut and Berlin.

Michelle Hartman is a literary translator and professor of Arabic literature at McGill University. She has translated more than a dozen novels from Arabic to English including three other novels by Iman Humaydan, The Weight of Paradise, Other Lives, and Wild Mulberries. Her latest translation is A Long Walk from Gaza. She has also written on Lebanese women and the Civil War in two co-authored volumes (with Malek Abisaab), Women’s War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women’s Labor and the Creative Arts, and What the War Left Behind: Women’s Stories of Resistance and Struggle in Lebanon.

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