Syrian literature is full of names of creative Syrian women

The history of Syrian literature is full of names of women who presented immortal creations to Arabic readers, such as Mariana Marrash, who founded literary salons, Olfat Al-Edelbi, Ghada Al-Samman, Colette Al-Khoury and others.

Today, in the midst of the war on Syria and the unjust siege, women writers in our country continue the path of their grandmothers and mothers, as they monitor the events of the war and write about the resistant soldier, the mother of the martyr and the Syrian man who faces adversity with unrelenting determination.

The literary media figure, Bianca Madiah, author of Suleiman Al-Halabi’s book, and who has headed the cultural department of Aleppian Al-Jamahir newspaper since 2005, considered that the Syrian woman, when she turns to literature, she takes with her the affection, warmth and tenderness. So, all of this has been reflected in  her letters and presented a unique creativity.

Madiah says that Syrian women writers have defied the saying “there is no female creativity,” noting that they are at the fore in the entire Arab literary scene, and evidence of this is that they annually win prizes and advanced positions in competitions organized by Arab countries.

She continued: On the level of poetry, we will find brilliant female names of Syrian poets, such as Ahlam Ghanem, who challenged her circumstances and the fanaticism of her surrounding society and who won many international prizes.

The author of the novel, “Unbreakable Woman”, Nabugh Asaad, who portrayed the widespread crimes of kidnapping women as a result of the war and their steadfastness in the face of harsh conditions, saw that the Syrian woman’s writing about the war in her homeland has an added value because it reveals the extent of the torments that have affected the Syrian family in terms of loss of men and displacement.

Raneem Al-Basha is one the female media professionals who presented literary publications that reflected the reality of war. She expresses in literature profound human phenomena that the media cannot keep pace with because they require detail in explaining the feelings and the insides of the human being. In her opinion, women have a greater ability in this aspect than men because they are more distinguished in emotional processing and expression of feelings.

The woman’s attachment to her environment makes her a researcher and a creator, according to Dr. Naglaa Al-Khadra, who devotes most of her time to documenting the Palestinian and Arab heritage in the face of attempts to steal and falsify it. She considered that a woman’s work in this field stems from her biological role as a mother and from her social role as a head of a family, who raises up generations and provides them with ideals, values, good education and love of homelands.

Inas Abdulkareem