Hissa hilal biography of williams

Hissa Hilal, also known under the pseudonym Remia, is a Saudi poet from a Bedouin community in Northwest Saudi Arabia. When she was 11 years old, she began writing poetry as a form of expression but because of financial reasons, she was unable to attend university after she completed her secondary schooling in Bahrain.

In , under the pseudonym Remia, she published The Language of Sand Heap, one of her first collections of poetry. A number of her poems were also published in Saudi newspapers and magazines and eventually Hissa began working as the poetry editor of al-Hayat, a pan Arab newspaper.

Hissa rose to fame in when she was featured on season 4 of Million’s Poet, a televised poetry competition in the UAE. Her most famous poem in the competition was The Chaos of Fatwas, which offered a scathing critique of conservative Muslim clerics for the culture of terror they imposed on people and their restrictions on women’s rights.

She came in third place in the competition becoming the