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Najwa Kawar Farah is a Palestinian writer who has contributed to 

Palestinian and Arabic literature for several decades. The bulk of her publications are short stories, novels and poems. Najwa was born in Nazareth 

and lived in Haifa until 1965, and then in two West Bank cities, Jerusalem and Ramallah. Najwa also lived in Lebanon, the UK and Canada. She passed away in Canada in 2015.

Najwa’s life experiences in Palestine and the Middle East, provided her with 

the political, historical, and socio-cultural milieu from which she drew and developed her characters.

Most of her protagonists are Palestinians, mainly ’ordinary’ people especially 

refugees uprooted from their homes and homeland, who seek answers to their 

individual and collective historical predicament. Many of these protagonists are 

resilient women, who in addition to their political oppression encounter social 

discrimination. Her stories and novels come in eleven collections in Arabic. 

A number of these have been translated into English.