Lamia Abbas Amara

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 (2023). 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-4632-4132-2.