Faleeha Hassan - The biography and a poem
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Faleeha Hassan
She is a poet, teacher, editor, writer, and playwright born in Najaf, Iraq, in 1967, who now lives in the United States. Faleeha was the first woman to write poetry for children in Iraq. She received her master's degree in Arabic literature and has now published 27 books, her poems have been translated into English, Turkmen, Bosnian, Indian, French, Italian, German, Kurdish, Spain, Korean, Greek, Serbia, Albanian, Pakistani, Romanian, Malayalam, Chinese, ODIA, Nepali and Macedonian language. She is the Pulitzer Prize Nomination 2018, PushCaret Prize Nomination 2019.
-Member of International Writers and Artists Association.
-Winner of the Women of Excellence Inspiration award from SJ Magazine 2020,
-Winner of the Grand Jury Award (the Sahitto International Award for Literature 2021)
-One of the Women of Excellence selection committees 2023
-Winner of women the arts award 2023
-Member of Who's Who in America 2023
-SAHITTO AWARD, JUDGING PANEL 2023
-Winner of HerStory Award from women’s Federation for world peace New Jersey 2024
-Cultural Ambassador - Iraq, USA since 2018
-Cultural Ambassador and worldwide literary advisor PEN CRAFT Bangladesh
I am honored to be appointed as a 2024 Peace Ambassador by the Universal Peace Federation
Member of The Founding Mothers Global Women’s Congress 2024
Email: [email protected]
How many times have I told you
There is no point in the plastic roses
For a woman who lives in the pulse of a forest
Her balcony overlooks the breath of the waves
She feeds butterflies with scattered poems
Her neighbours are deer and squirrels
Whenever she stands to prostrate
Under the majesty of spring
She is surprised by flecks of snow
Like a spray of a unique perfume
While your heavy bouquet
Since morning
Wasting a lot of time
Sitting
On the edge of the table.
Prepared for press by Angela Kosta
