birth_place twitter language birth_date article_title name occupation
damascus , syria . -lsb- https://twitter.com/ghadaalsaman] . arabic , english , french . 1942 ghada al-samman
 ghada al-samman ar غادة السمّان novelist , journalist .
ghada al-samman

ghada al-samman -lrb- -rrb- is a syrian writer , journalist and novelist born in damascus in 1942 to a prominent and conservative damascene family , she is remotely related to nizar qabbani the famous poet .
her father was ahmed al-samman , a president of the syrian university .
she was deeply influenced by him since her mother died at a very young age .
