Birth: NULL/NULL/1924 Death:NULL/NULL/2002
Born in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1924 to a Palestinian Greek-Orthodox family; daughter of Palestinian educator Khalil Sakakini; went to school in the German Colony area in the 1930s; was displaced from the Qatamon neighborhood in West Jerusalem during the 1948 Nakba and fled with her family to Egypt; later returned to Ramallah, Palestine, and began a long career in education; edited her father’s memoirs under the title Such am I, O World (published in 1955); also wrote two memoirs in English: Jerusalem and I: A Personal Record (Amman: Economic Press, 1990), and Twosome (1993); together with her sister Dumia and Palestinian friends she founded the Khalil Sakakini Center in Ramallah in 1998; died in 2002.
