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
Hanna K. Korany was from Kfarshima in the Mount Lebanon region, and educated at a Presbyterian missionary school for girls in Beirut.
Career
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]
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]
^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.
^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.