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Sahar Khalifeh

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Early life and education
Wild Thorns
Publications
Publications by Khalifeh Publications with contributions by Khalifeh
Awards
Sources
References

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|name=Sahar Khalifeh
سحر خليفة
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|birth_date= 1941
|occupation=writer, novelist, feminist
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|awards=Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
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Sahar Khalifeh ({{lang-ar|سحر خليفة}}) (born 1941) is a Palestinian writer.^[1] One of her best-known works is the novel Wild Thorns (1976).

Khalifeh is the founder of the Women's Affairs Center in Nablus, which now has branches in Gaza and Amman, Jordan. Her works include several novels and essays, translated into several languages, including Hebrew, as well as non-fiction writing.

Early life and education

Khalifeh was born in Nablus, Palestine. After studying at the University of Birzeit, in the Palestinian occupied territories, she received a Fulbright Scholarship and went to continue her studies in the U.S. She got an MA in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in Women's Studies from the University of Iowa before returning to Palestine in 1988.

Wild Thorns

One of her best-known works is the novel Wild Thorns (1976). 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.'

Publications

Publications by Khalifeh

The following novels are available in translation into English:

The End of Spring (Interlink)
The Inheritance (American University in Cairo Press)
Of Noble Origins (AUC Press)
The Image, the Icon and the Covenant (Interlink)
Wild Thorns (Saqi)

Publications with contributions by Khalifeh

Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature by Salma Jayyusi (Columbia University Press), contains excerpts of her earlier work

Awards

2006: Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant.^[2]
2013: The Mohamed Zafzaf Prize, Morocco^[3]

Sources

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070401004645/http://adab.chez-alice.fr/Samed/sahar.htm 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
Who Is Hidden beneath the Burqa? An Appeal to the West by Sahar Khalifa

References

1. ^{{cite web|accessdate=2018-11-29|title=Sahar Khalifeh|url=https://www.arabicfiction.org/en/Sahar-Khalifeh-author|website=International Prize for Arabic Fiction}}
2. ^"Palestinian female novelist granted Naguib Mahfouz medal in Cairo." Xinhua News Agency. (Dec. 11, 2006). Gale Document Number: GALE|A155758476.
3. ^{{cite web|first1=Sarah|last1=Irving|accessdate=2018-11-29|title=Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh awarded Moroccan literary prize|url=https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/sarah-irving/palestinian-novelist-sahar-khalifeh-awarded-moroccan-literary-prize|website=The Electronic Intifada|date=1 July 2013}}

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