Hanna K. Korany
Hanna K. Korany (1871–1898), also seen as Hanna Kurani, was a Syrian writer. From 1893 to 1895 she toured the United States, speaking on women's lives in Syria.
Early life[edit]
Hanna K. Korany was from Kfarshima in the Mount Lebanon region, and educated at a Presbyterian missionary school for girls in Beirut.
Career[edit]
In 1891, she published Manners and Habits, a book in Arabic.[1] She also wrote a novel in Arabic, and was somewhat prematurely labeled "the George Eliot of Syria" by one American newspaper.[2]
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In 1893, Korany was invited by Bertha Palmer to represent Syria at the World's Congress of Representative Women,[3] an event associated with the World's Columbian Exposition that year.[4] She also displayed Syrian women's embroidery and handiwork at the fair, reported on the fair for Al Fatat, a woman's magazine based in Egypt,[5] and wrote an essay, "The Glory of Womanhood", for the Congress of Women publication.[6]
She went on a lecture tour in the United States after her Chicago activities were finished.[7] In 1894 she attended the annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Washington, D.C.,[8] and spoke at a society dinner on the same program with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lillie Devereux Blake, and May Wright Sewall.[9] In 1896 she started a woman's club in Beirut.[10]
Personal life[edit]
She married Amin Effendi Korany in 1887. Hanna Korany died in 1898, aged 27 years, in Beirut.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ Fannie C. W. Barbour, "Madame Hanna K. Korany, the Most Famous Syrian Woman of the Day" The Chautauquan (August 1894): 614.
- ^ "The George Eliot of Syria" Herald Democrat (December 20, 1894): 2. via Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
- ^ Hanna K. Korany, "The Position of Women in Syria" in May Wright Sewall, ed., The World's Congress of Representative Women (Rand McNally 1894): 773-777.
- ^ "A Fair Visitor from Syria" New York Times (February 20, 1894): 6.
- ^ Marilyn Booth, Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History through Biography in Fin-de-Siècle Egypt (Edinburgh University Press 2015). ISBN 9781474403412
- ^ Madam Hannah K. Korany, "The Glory of Womanhood" in Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle, ed. The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893 (Monarch Book Company 1894): 359-360.
- ^ "Some Facts About Syria" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (March 24, 1894): 10. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Program: National American Woman Suffrage Association twenty-sixth annual convention, Washington, D.C. February 15 to 20, 1894 Ann Lewis Women's Suffrage Collection.
- ^ "Prominent Women Dine" New York Times (December 23, 1894): 16.
- ^ "A Syrian Woman's Club" The St. Bernard Voice (September 19, 1896): 4. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Death List of a Day: Mme. Hanna K. Korany" New York Times (August 2, 1898): 7.
