Birth: NULL/NULL/1950 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jerusalem in 1950; raised in Jericho; in the course of the 1967 War the family fled to Jordan and after the Black September 1970 from there to Beirut; received a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from the Beirut Arab University, but then was unable to complete her MA due to the Lebanese civil war; volunteered in various Palestinian women’s organizations; worked as field reporter and editor of the cultural section of Al-Huriyya review; after the 1982 Palestinian exodus from Lebanon, lived and worked in Damascus, Tunis, Amman; returned to Palestine in 1994; was founding editor of the PA Ministry of Culture’s periodical Dafater Thaqafiyya; runs the Cinema and Audiovisual Dept. at the PA Ministry of Culture in Ramallah; her works include the novel The Sundial (Arabic, 1979; English, 1989), several children’s books, and short story collections, incl. Stories of Love and Pursuit (1983) and I Want the Day (1985); also wrote novels like The Balcony Over the Fakihani (1983) about the plight of Palestinians in Lebanon and the 1976 Tel Az-Za’atar massacre, and an interview/memoir of poet Fadwa Touqan entitled Fadwa Touqan – the Shadow of Narrated Words (1996); among the signatories of the Geneva Accords in Dec. 2003.
