Palestinian Territory, Occupied

Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish was a widely known and popular Palestinian poet. He was born in Berweh, a village east of Acre, Palestine, in 1942. When the Israelis occupied his home in 1948, Darwish began to experience…...

Faisal Darraj

Faisal Darraj is a Palestinian literary critic. He has published several books on literary theory and criticism, among them Bo's Al-Thaqafa fi al-Mu'asasah al-Falestiniyeh (The Misery of Culture…...

Hassan Khader

Hassan Khader is a Palestinian writer whose most recent publication is an autobiography, in Arabic, called Land of the Deer (2003). Other works include Identity of the Other and The Rise and Development…...

Hanoch Levin

Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) was born in Palestine to Holocaust survivors from Poland. He exploded onto the Israeli theater scene in 1968 with his play You, Me and the Next War, a sharp critique of the…...

Antoine Shulhut

Adania Shibli

Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974. She has been publishing since 1996 in literary magazines in the Arab world and Europe. Shibli has twice been awarded the Young Writer's Award-Palestine…...

Fadwa Touqan

Fadwa Touqan, one of the most distinguished figures of modern Arabic literature, died in December 2003, at the height of the second Palestinian intifada, when her ancestral hometown of Nablus was under…...

Nassar Ibrahim

Nassar Ibrahim is a writer from Beit Sahour, Palestine.

Sahar Khalifeh

Sahar Khalifeh is one of the Arab world's best-known novelists. Of her seven novels, only her second, Wild Thorns, published in Arabic in 1976, is available in English translation (1984). She lives…...

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