Birth: NULL/NULL/1923 Death:NULL/NULL/1993
Born in Nablus in 1923; was first educated at the St. Joseph, Al-Fatimiya and Al-’A’ishiyah schools in Nablus, then was sent to the Friends School in Ramallah, from where she graduated in 1942; pursued her higher education in Beirut College for Women and at the AUB, majoring in English Literature; was appointed as a teacher at Al-’A’ishiyah School in Nablus; won a scholarship for graduate studies in the US, and graduated with a degree in Teaching English as a Second Language in 1952; joined the College of Education at Columbia University in Sept. 1952; returned to Nablus and worked as an education supervisor in the 1950s; based on requests by UNRWA consultant Mr. Ahmad Tuqan, established the UNRWA Teachers’ Institute for Women in Nablus; was also involved in establishing the UNRWA Teachers’ Training College in Ramallah; was an activist in the boycotting campaign against Israeli products; taught English at An-Najah College in Nablus for four years and assigned to write a book for students on Living English for Jordan; became a Board of Trustees member of An-Najah College in 1976; was among those who helped transforming the College into An-Najah National University (which opened in Nov. 1976) and subsequently supervised English-teaching classes; translated foreign novels into Arabic (a collection of which was published by the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem in 1984) and ten poems by Fadwa Tuqan into English (which were published in 1988 under the title Daily Nightmares); donated her father’s book collection to the Nablus municipality; died in 1993.
