Rasha Habbal

Rasha Habbal, born in 1982 in Hama, Syria, is a Syrian writer and poet. Her Arabic-language poetry debut was published in 2014. Her work has appeared in anthologies and literary journals and has been translated into several languages, including German, Polish, French, and Greek. In 2018, she became the first recipient of the “Torschreiber am Pariser Platz” fellowship for writers in exile; in 2020, she received the Weiterschreiben-Wiesbaden fellowship. Her first poetry collection published in German, Die letzte Frau, appeared in 2021.