Hanaa Hijazi

Jeddah

Hanaa HIJAZI (fiction/nonfiction writer, essayist, translator; Saudi Arabia) is a family physician, writer, painter, and translator working in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She has written numerous essays for magazines and newspapers, spoken at international book festivals, and published three works: a collection of short stories titled [Bent (a Girl)] (2001), the prose collection [Did You See Me? I Was Walking in the Street] (2007), and an autobiography about her journey in diagnosing her child with Asperger syndrome, which was awarded Book of the Year in 2013 by the Ministry of Culture and Information. Her work has been translated into Italian and English. In addition to her literary career, Hijazi is the coordinator of the national diabetes prevention program in the Ministry of Health, Jeddah and a member of the Saudi Society of Family and Community Medicine.

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Do You Look Like Your Name? What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; That what Juliet – or actually Shakespeare, using Juliet’s voice— said about names. The Arab poet, Joseph Harb, said... media_text	Old Jeddah at Night media_image	Date shops scattered everywhere. media_image
Did you see me? I Was Walking in the Street… Did you see me? Of course you didn’t. I didn’t see me either. I was walking in the street, my hair flying in the wind. You know my hair, it isn’t thick and heavy; it’s light and soft, that’s why it was easy... media_text	Separation We will become friends, it's not possible to continue this way: I avoided asking him, I told him this as a decision, I was afraid he would begin talking about things I was done with years ago. I... media_text	Looking Up in Old Jeddah media_image
It's the War I wake up tense, the way I used to feel at the start of the war. I open my clenched fists, I don't say good morning to myself. I can't. Yusuf is asleep next to me, hasn't changed his habits, wakes up in the... media_text	I live in Jeddah أعيش في جدة. فتحت عيني في هذه المدينة ولم أغادرها في حياتي لأكثر من أسابيع قليلة. أعود بعدها مشتاقة أو لأن لابد من العودة لارتباطي بعمل وعائلة. غريب تمسكي بهذه المدينة أنا القادمة من عائلة تعودت على الهجرات... media_text	Saisam Trunk, Traditional Bridal Trunk Saisam trunk, the bride trunk ( a trunk used to be given to newly married brides in Hijaz region) I once asked my mother about my grandmother special trunk, the one that every bride used to have when... media_text
Old Jeddah media_image	Old Jeddah Street-scape media_image	A Morning Meeting Hi, I'm going to Starbucks, can you meet me there? Which one? The one on the beach, Yusuf is invited to a party nearby and I'll kill the time at Starbucks until he is done. Where exactly?... media_text

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