Rana Hanna is a storyteller who writes about the fragility of home and the endurance of the human spirit. Having lived through war, loss, and exile, she explores how people rebuild meaning after rupture — how love, memory, and courage can coexist with uncertainty. With candid courage and wry, humane honesty, she reveals how endurance can be gentle and how mourning can become an act of courage and presence, a bridge between who we once were and who we are still becoming. Across fiction and nonfiction, she asks what it means to stay anchored during moments of transition. As a consultant mentoring young people find direction and voice, she affirms the dignity of imperfection, curiosity as divination, the importance of dreams and the beauty in the ordinary. Rana was born in Beirut, Lebanon and was educated in France and the United Kingdom. She holds a BA Joint Honours in Politics and History from the University of Nottingham and an M.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford. She has worked as a journalist at Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) and in the management consultant firm McKinsey and Company. She was the editor of Deloitte’s Middle East Point of View magazine for fifteen years. When not writing, she enjoys mentoring students through their educational and career trajectories. In her spare time she enjoys running and the gym, spending time with her dogs and her adult children. She lives between London and Beirut. Birds in the Rain is her first novel