page_title: Hanna K. Korany
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Hanna K. Korany / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Women in the Lyceum
context_page_description: Hanna K. Korany, 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.
context_section_description: In 1891, she published Manners and Habits, a book in Arabic. She also wrote a novel in Arabic, and was somewhat prematurely labeled "the George Eliot of Syria" by one American newspaper.
  In 1893, Korany was invited by Bertha Palmer to represent Syria at the World's Congress of Representative Women, an event associated with the World's Columbian Exposition that year. 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, and wrote an essay, "The Glory of Womanhood", for the Congress of Women publication.
  She went on a lecture tour in the United States after her Chicago activities were finished. In 1894 she attended the annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Washington D. C., and spoke at a society dinner on the same program with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lillie Devereux Blake, and May Wright Sewall. In 1896 she started a woman's club in Beirut.
caption: Hanna K. Korany (1895)
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