Haneen Al Sayegh

Haneen Al Sayegh is a Lebanese novelist and poet, born in Mount Lebanon in 1986. She holds a BA in English literature, and an MA in teaching English curricula from the American University of Beirut. She has published three volumes of poetry and was awarded the Naji Noaman literary award. Her first novel, “The Women’s Covenant”, was shortlisted for the Internation Prize for Arabic Literature and was translated to German and English.

Haneen will work on a novel with the following synopsis: Torn between a German mother and a Druze Lebanese father, she survives two family abductions, silence, and scars too deep for words. Love comes like a promise, but trauma builds walls she cannot climb. Among horses, she finds what humans denied her: gentleness, trust, and healing. Between fractured identities and haunted memories, she realizes that the wholeness she was seeking was never a place or a person, but a quiet flame she carried all along.