Birth: 1/1/1941 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Nablus in 1941; concluded her secondary education at the Rosary College in Amman in 1959; began writing shortly after the 1967 War, and published her first novel in 1974; studied English Language at Birzeit University, graduating with a BA in 1977; continued her studies and received an MA from Chapel-Hill University in North Carolina, US, in 1980; worked as a lecturer at Birzeit and Iowa Universities; then studied Women’s Studies and American Literature at Iowa University, graduating with a PhD in 1988; returned to Palestine and founded the Women’s Affairs Center in Nablus, which opened a branch in Gaza City in 1991, and in Amman in 1994; author and novelist whose works have been translated into many languages and include, We Are No Longer Slaves for You (Arabic, Cairo, 1975); The Cactus (Arabic, 1978); Sunflower (Arabic, Jerusalem, 1978); Memoirs of an Unrealistic Women (Arabic, Beirut, 1988); Women in the Unholy Land (English, 1989); The Plaza Gate, Beirut, 1990/1); and The Inheritance (Arabic, Beirut, 1997); won numerous literary prizes, incl. the Peace Prize from the Organization for the Colored Women in the American Iowa State, the Albert Moravia Prize for the Foreign Novel in Italy (1996), and the Qassem Amin Golden Medal for Feminist Writing; lives in Nablus and Amman.
