Ummaya Hamdan

Born in Sawfarr in 1935, she received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Arabic literature from the American University of Beirut. She wrote the novel "Wait" (1966) to which Dr. Anton Ghattas Karam paid tribute. In 1972, she released the play "Crazy Chanet". She also wrote a study on the Sing Theatre, "The Spoiled Boy of the West" (1973) and then the novel "The Point of The Picard" (1979) presented by the poet Michel Suleiman. In 1980, she wrote the novel "The Next Blue with the Wind" with drawings from the artist Mustafa Halaj. Her most recent work was entitled "There is something that remains and there is something that goes away" (2006) with drawings by Sudanese artist Ahmed Abdel-Al and presented by her husband, the artist Imran al-Qaisi, in which he has a diary from 1981 to 2005.