Palestinian Novelists

Sahar Khalifeh

Biography:
Sahar Khalifeh was born in 1941 in the city of Nablus. She was married in 1959 after her high school graduation in a traditional match that ended in divorce 13 years later. She has two daughters, and lives between Amman, Jordan; and Nablus.

Education:
Sahar Khalifeh completed her secondary education in 1959 in Amman at the Rosary College. She began a new life after her divorce, and completed a BA in English literature from Bir Zeit University. In 1980 she obtained a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States and obtained an MA in English literature from Chapel -Hill University in North Carolina. She also completed a Ph.D in women’s studies and American literature from Iowa University in 1988.

Profession:
Khalifeh returned to Palestine in 1988, and founded the Women’s Affairs Center in Nablus, which opened a branch in Gaza City in 1991, and in Amman in 1994.

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