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Haifa Bitar’s writing is poignant and agonizing, penetrating with delicate insight into the very heart of Arab and human life from a bold and powerful perspective. Her writing is fresh and delicate, expressing the suffering of Arab women with rare honesty and beautiful execution. Her concerns transcend their limitations, becoming universally relevant to all people, men and women, across time and place. Her writing is intelligent, capturing the most subtle nuances that elude any other medium. Bitar writes in that space between shadow and essence, between voice and echo, and through her contemplation of the relationships between men and women, a poignant sorrow emerges, along with a melancholic irony.
Her work possesses an exquisitely sweet vision of simple human desires, desires that can be shattered by misunderstanding and the falsehoods surrounding human destinies.
I don’t believe I have ever read works by a female writer that portray the inner world of Arab women with such boldness and honesty as I have read in Haifa Bitar’s writing. That powerful narrative voice emanates from Latakia, reaching far and wide, touching humanity in every time and place with its sincerity, boldness, and beauty.
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