Syria

Jackleen Hanna
Jackleen Hanna, who writes under the pen name Jackleen Salam, emigrated to the GTA from Syria in 1998. In 2005 she became the editor of jozoor/roots, an on-line magazine for Arab writers in the Canadian and American Diaspora. Jackleen has joined the board of directors for the Jozoor Cultural Foundation for Arab creative writing and the arts, volunteered and done translation work for the Canadian Arab Federation, and written for the Arab Immigrant Press as well as a host of other book and poetry reviews. She is a member of the Canadian branches of the World Union of Arab Writers and the Arab Press Association. A social activist, Jackleen has been particularly active concerning Arab and abused women’s rights, human rights and freedom of expression. She has published three collections of poetry in Arabic. Readers of Arabic can learn more about Jackleen by visiting her Website, at www.jackleensalam.com.