there were suggestions that it was actually a man writing the poems--"it amazes you? Really? People think like that in the Arab world. A woman cannot have a talent. It's so frustrating." Initially she wrote in French and then in Arabic: at 26 she scandalised her father (who used to write classical Arabic poetry in secret) by putting the word "penis" in a poem. Why, he asked sorrowfully, can't you use the word "column"?Haddad's own husband, a hotelier, became increasingly uncomfortable with her concerns and prominence--"he would make fun of my writer friends, would make fun of me--you know, childish stuff"--and, after paying to convert from Catholicism to the Syriac Orthodox faith (though Haddad is, in fact, an atheist), they divorced when she was 29.
from The Guardian: Joumana Haddad: 'I live in a country that hates me'
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