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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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“It is rather too easy to write about depression, but where can one find the words to describe happiness?”
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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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“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.”
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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
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