Haneen Al-Sayegh is a Lebanese poet and novelist, born in Mount Lebanon in 1986. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature, and a Master’s degree in Teaching English Language Curricula from the American University of Beirut. She has published three poetry collections and two novels. Her debut novel, The Women’s Pact (2023), published by Dar Al-Adab, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. It has been translated into German and will soon be released in English.
When his soul left his body and this world, he left a house for poetry, a place for his things, and walls where the poetry he loved would remain. The Bahraini poet Ibrahim Al Arrayed, and all those who (followed) him in his literary journey and translated works, were retained by the Sheikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research in his city which he belonged, Manama. For it was the house of fame, as the first among the homes of cultural centers outside the city of Muharraq.
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