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Mogannam published articles in the Palestinian newspapers and was the author of a book entitled The Arab Woman and the Palestine Problem. [6] The book was first published by the London-based Herbert Joseph in 1937. [3] [7] It is the only book about the women's movement during the Mandate period. [4] Mogannam and her husband settled in Ramallah ...
This is a list of women writers who were born in Palestine or whose writings are closely associated with that region. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 1948, Azzam fled Palestine with her husband and family in the Nakba. Her collections of stories are renowned for examining the entirety of the Palestinian identity during this time period. [2] Her first set of short stories, Small Things, was published in 1954, and examined women's role in Palestinian society. After returning to Beirut in ...
The Ministry of Women's Affairs in Palestine, established in 2003, is the main governmental agency responsible for promoting and protecting women's rights. Government ministries promote reform of discriminatory laws and gender units have been established in each ministry. [ 25 ]
The book contains a collection of 45 Palestinian folk tales, including Palestinian hikaye, drawn from a collection of two hundred tales narrated by women from different areas of the region of Palestine (the Galilee, the West Bank, and Gaza). The stories collected were chosen on the basis of their popularity, their aesthetic and narrative ...
Abulhawa's parents, born in At-Tur a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives east of the Old City of Jerusalem, were refugees of the 1967 war.Her father, according to one account, "was expelled at gunpoint; her mother, who was studying in Germany at the time, was unable to return and the couple reunited in Jordan before moving to Kuwait, where Abulhawa was born in 1970".
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Her book, Alone With the Days, focused on the hardships faced by women in the male-dominated Arab world. [4] After the Six-Day War, Tuqan's poetry focused on the hardships of living under the Israeli occupation. One of her best known poems, "The Night and the Horsemen," described life under Israeli military rule.