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Lamia Abbas Amara
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thumb|A 1949 portrait of Lamia Abbas Amara by Jawad Saleem
Lamia Abbas Amara (also spelled Lamea Abbas Amara; 1929 – 18 June 2021) was an Iraqi Mandaean poet.
Quotes
Cities have a spirit and reveal their secrets if you listen.
jadaliyya.com, Oct 17, 2015
Why should we hate the people we once loved because of a war that mars even our memories?
Frouzanda Mahrad (an Arabic poem, translated by Mike Maggio in: Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press.)
Quotes about Lamia Abbas Amara
Lamea ... is ... dark and intense, with the personality of an archaic queen.
Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 21.
During one of her lessons to me, Lamea said that priests have long beards and never cut their hair because they wish to look like Šamiš, the sun. Power resides in hair, like the sun’s rays.
Buckley Jorunn Jacobsen 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans 2023 Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press 978-1-4632-4132-2 33
Category:1929 births
Category:Iraqi Mandaeans
Category:Poets from Iraq
Category:2021 deaths