Maryana Marrash Biography | Poet

Maryana bint Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic : / ALA-LC : Maryana bint Fat Allah bin Narallah Marrash ; 1848–1919), also known as Maryana al-Marrash al-Halabiya, was a Syrian writer and poet of the Nahda movement—the Arabic renaissance. She revived the tradition of literary salons in the Middle East and was the first Syrian woman to publish a collection of poetry. She may have been the first woman to write in the Arab daily newspapers .