Sahar Khalifeh

Template:Infobox Arabperson Sahar Khalifeh (Template:Lang-ar) is a Palestinian writer born in 1942 in Nablus of the West Bank. After studying at the university of Birzeit, in the Palestinian occupied territories, she received a Fulbright scholarship and went to continue eher studies in the US. She got a MA in English Literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a PhD in women's studies from the University of Iowa before returning to Palestine in 1988. She is the founder of the Women's Affairs Center in Nablus, and it now has branches in Gaza and Amman, Jordan. She is considered as one of the most prominent Palestinian writers. Her works include several novels and essays translated in several languages, including Hebrew, as well as non-fiction writing.

One of her best-known works is "Wild Thorns". An excerpt reads as follows:

"'Halt!' The order came from a soldier sitting in front of the wooden walkway. Usama stopped, his heart pounding. 'Open your suitcase!' The Israeli stretched out his hand and rifled the contents. 'What's this?' 'Librium.' 'Yeah, you people are crazy about that stuff.'"

Sources

• Bio-bibliography (in French) on the site Samed devoted to palestinian literature
• Arab World Books
• al-Mallah, Ahmad. "Sahar Khalifa." Twentieth-Century Arabic Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 346. Gale, 2009. Literature Resource Center. Gale. 17 Mar. 2009 Gale Literature Resource Center