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Hala Alzaghal

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in Amman, Jordan

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Biography, Fiction, Poetry

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Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Simone De Beauvoir

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Hala Alzaghal is a Jordanian writer and English teacher. After living in California for several years, she went back to Jordan to continue her studies and received a bachelor’s degree in French language and Literature from the University of Jordan. She attended a creative writing course in university, in which her texts stood out, consequently increasing her passion for writing. Using it as an outlet, after years of the ongoing battle against depression and on growing anxiety, she published her first book; a memoir titled I Made a Mother out of May, in 2017 as an eBook in which she documents her personal struggles with many aspects of life (depression, oppression, physical pain, mental pain, loss, desire, love, and sexuality)

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I Made a Mother out of May
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Notes from Underground

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“It is rather too easy to write about depression, but where can one find the words to describe happiness?”
― Hala Alzaghal, I Made a Mother out of May

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“Summer is too intense, winter is too heavy, fall is too dry, and spring, well it never comes.”
― Hala Alzaghal, I Made a Mother out of May

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“I am sure I am not mine.”
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“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

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“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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“The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad news that you're in debt, or dirty, or likely to be mugged.”
― Helen Dunmore, Ice Cream

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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
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