People

Palestine

Abdel Karim Sabawi
Was born in 1942 in Gaza, Palestine, and emigrated to Australia in 1980. Journalist and poet, he has published in various magazines and journals from Arab countries. He published a novel, The Phoenix (1994), which — in its original Arab language version — won the Annual Gibran International Award in 1993.

Faiha Abdulhadi
Is a writer, poet, research consultant, feminist, community activist, and lecturer. She holds a PhD in Arabic Modern Literature – Arabic Contemporary Novel, a BA in Theatrical Criticism and a BA in Literature. She is a member of the Palestinian National Council, and was recently the special coordinator of the 1000 Women for Noble Peace Prize 2005 for Palestine. In addition, she is the chairwoman for the Ogarit Cultural Center for Publishing and Translation, based in Ramallah.
Faiha Abdulhadi is a Member of the Board of Shashat, The Palestinian Woman Cinema, and also a Member of the Board of Jerusalem Center for Legal Aid. She worked as a Consultant Researcher to the Directorate of Gender Planning and Development, The Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation. She also worked with the General Union of Palestinian Woman in Cairo.
Faiha Abdulhadi has published a number of books dealing with literature, politics and history with a common focus on the role of women. She has traced this theme within the Palestinian novel through her books Types of Heroines in Contemporary Palestinian Novel (1997) and The Palestinian Woman and Memory, as well as in her Bibliography of Palestinian Oral History (1999) and lately The Roles of Palestinian Women in the 1930’s and in the 1940’s (2006). Further publications include Will the Two Parts Combine (prose; 1997) and The Rose of the Soul (poetry; 2005).She was a regular contributor to Palestinian newspapers and Jordanian, Egyptian and Dubai cultural magazines.

Ghassan Zaqtan
Was born in Beit Jala in 1954, the child of a refugee Palestinian family from the village of Zakaria, near Hebron. They stayed in the Al Karama camp for a while, then settled in Amman, where he worked as a physical education teacher in a nearby refugee camp. He later moved to Beirut, where he worked with the youth in Lebanese refugee camps. After the siege of Beirut in 1882, he went to Adan. Before returning to Gaza in 1994, he lived in Damascus, Cyprus, Moscow, and Tunis. He now lives in Ramallah. He has published books of poetry, novels and plays. His books of poetry include Early Morning, Old Reasons, Flags, Not for My Sake, Heroism of Things, Tiding Descriptions (selected poems), Mount Temptation and Coal Chronology. His poems are translated in several languages. He has also played an active role in cultural magazines and participated in documentary films. Ghassan Zactan is currently the Director General of the Literature and Publishing Department of the Palestinian Ministry of Culture.

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