Khalida Said
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Said was born in Latakia, Syria.[3] She studied arts, including apprenticing with the well-known artist Mahmoud Jalal.[3]
She joined the Teachers’ Training Institute in Damascus[3] and then went on to further studies of Arabic literature in Damascus followed by the Lebanese University in Beirut. She completed her PhD in Arabic literature at the Sorbonne.[3]
Said met the writer Adonis, who she went on to marry, during her time at Teachers College. Adonis has said in an interview that he "never publish[ed] anything without her looking at it; he described their marriage as a "deep intellectual friendship."[4]
Khalida joined the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) and was imprisoned because of her party activities.[4]
