Biography:

Huda Hanna (1922- ), (هدى حنا) Palestinian novelist born in the village of al-Rama in northern Palestine. She completed her primary education in the village and graduated from the Teachers' Academy in Jerusalem in 1937. After the nakba, she moved to Damascus, where she was the principal of a school run by the U.N.RWA.

(From Arab Women Writers A Critical reference Guide by Radwa Ashour & Feryal Ghazoul)

Publications: (Arabic)

• Sawt al-malaji' (Voice of the Refugee Camps, novel). Damascus: Damascus Press, n.d. (The author notes that the novel was written in the five years following the nakba.)