Sania Saleh (1935–1985; Arabic: سنية صالح) was a Syrian writer and poet, who wrote and published several poetry collections.
[2] Sania Saleh was born in the city of Masyaf, in the Hama Governorate, Syria.
In the late 1960s she married Mohammad al-Maghut while she was still a student in the college of literature at the University of Damascus, Syria.
In 1985, Sania Saleh died at a hospital in Paris after having battled an illness for 10 months.
[3] The Egyptian poet Iman Mersal has lamented that fact Saleh's poetry was not more widely known when Mersal was young: I grew up thinking that there were no modern Arab female poets for me – until I read Sania Saleh, just three years ago or so.