Hanna K. Korany
Syrian writer (1871–1898)
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Hanna K. Korany (1871–1898), also seen as Hanna Kurani, was a Syrian writer. From 1893 to 1895 she toured the United States, speaking on women's lives in Syria.
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Hanna K. Korany | |
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 Hanna K. Korany, from an 1894 publication | |
| Born | 1871 |
| Died | 1898 (aged 26–27) |
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Amin Effendi Korany (m. 1887) |
Early life
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Hanna K. Korany was from Kfarshima in the Mount Lebanon region, and educated at a Presbyterian missionary school for girls in Beirut.
Career
In 1891, she published Manners and Habits, a book in Arabic.[1] She also wrote a novel in Arabic, and was somewhat prematurely labeled "the George Eliot of Syria" by one American newspaper.[2] In 1893, Korany was invited by Bertha Palmer to represent Syria at the World's Congress of Representative Women,[3] an event associated with the World's Columbian Exposition that year.[4] She also displayed Syrian women's embroidery and handiwork at the fair, reported on the fair for Al-Fatat, a woman's magazine based in Egypt,[5] and wrote an essay, "The Glory of Womanhood", for the Congress of Women publication.[6]
She went on a lecture tour in the United States after her Chicago activities were finished.[7] In 1894 she attended the annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Washington, D.C.,[8] and spoke at a society dinner on the same program with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lillie Devereux Blake, and May Wright Sewall.[9] In 1896 she started a woman's club in Beirut.[10]
Personal life
She married Amin Effendi Korany in 1887. Hanna Korany died in 1898, aged 27 years, in Beirut.[11]
