List of Palestinian women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Palestine or whose writings are closely associated with that region.

A

  • Umayya Abu-Hanna (born 1961), Palestinian-Finnish journalist, columnist, novelist
  • Lama Abu-Odeh (born 1962), Palestinian-American educator, non-fiction writer
  • Susan Abulhawa (born 1970), Palestinian-American best selling novelist, human rights activist, author of Mornings in Jenin
  • Samira Azzam (1927–1967), short story writer, broadcaster, translator, political activist

B

  • Liana Badr (born 1950), novelist, short story writer
  • Ibtisam Barakat, Palestinian-American memoirist, poet, educator, author of Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood (2007)

D

  • Selma Dabbagh (born 1970), British-Palestinian short story writer, novelist, playwright with a strong focus on Palestine

E

  • Laila el-Haddad (born 1978), Kuwaiti-born Palestinian journalist, non-fiction writer
  • Noura Erakat, contemporary Palestinian-American legal scholar

F

  • Najwa Kawar Farah (born 1923), educator, short story writer, playwright, children's writer, novelist
  • Leila Farsakh (born 1967), non-fiction writer, educator

G

H

  • Suheir Hammad (born 1973), Palestinian-American poet, non-fiction writer
  • Nadia Hijab (fl. 1988), Syrian-born Palestinian analyst, journalist, living in the United States
  • Huzama Habayeb (born 1965), Kuwaiti-born Palestinian novelist, short-story writer, columnist, poet, and translator

J

  • Annemarie Jacir (born 1974), filmmaker, poet
  • Salma Jayyusi (born c.1926), Jordanian-Palestinian poet, translator
  • Rula Jebreal (born 1973), journalist, novelist, screenwriter

K

M

S

T

  • Raymonda Tawil (born 1940), journalist, poet
  • Fadwa Touqan (1917–2003), acclaimed poet, autobiographer

Z

  • May Ziadeh (1886–1941), Lebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist, journalist, salonist, translator
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