Maha Hassan

Maha Hassan (Arabic: مها حسن; born in Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian-Kurdish journalist and novelist.

In 2000, she was banned from publishing in Syria for her "morally condemnable" writing, and since August 2004, she has been living in exile in Paris.

After graduating from secondary school, Hassan acquired a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Aleppo.

In some of her works, she has fictionally treated taboos of Arab societies, such as abortions and honour killings, as in her novel Daughters of the Wilderness.

In his review for ArabLit magazine, Moroccan writer Mohammed Said Hjiouij interpreted the novel as a "celebration of the Kurdish identity and as an apology for being forced to abandon it".