Ramziya Abbas Al-Eryani (رمزية عباس الإرياني) or al-Iryani (1954 – November 14, 2013) was a pioneering Yemeni novelist, writer, diplomat and feminist.
[1] She was born in the village of Eryan in the Ibb Governorate, went to secondary school in Taiz and then studied philosophy at Cairo University earning a bachelor's degree in 1977.
[2] She was head of the Yemeni Women's Union (YWU) and was a board member of the Arab Family Organization.
[4] Al-Eryani died in 2013 in Berlin during surgery; her body was returned to Sana'a and interred in al-Rahma cemetery.
Al-Eryani's short stories have appeared in English translation in an anthology of Arab women writers.