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Susan Abulhawa
(
Arabic: سوزان أبو الهوى, born June 3, 1970) is a
Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of a bestselling novel,
Mornings in Jenin (2010) and the founder of a non-governmental organization, Playgrounds for Palestine.
[1] She lives in Yardley,
Pennsylvania.
[2] Her second novel,
The Blue Between Sky And Water, was sold in 19 languages before its release.
She majored in Biology in college and attended USC School of Medicine as a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Science, where she completed a master's degree in Neuroscience.
She later turned to journalism and fiction. She has contributed to several anthologies and has been published in major and minor US and international newspapers and other periodicals.
Mornings in Jenin (originally published in 2006 as
The Scar of David) was her debut novel.
[4][5] It is an international bestseller, published in at least 26 languages. In 2013, Abulhawa published a collection of poetry entitled "My Voice Sought The Wind" and it has been announced that she completed and sold her second novel manuscript.
Abulhawa is the founder of
Playgrounds for Palestine, [6] an
NGO that advocates for Palestinian children by building playgrounds in Palestine and UN refugee camps in Lebanon. The first playground was erected in early 2002.
[7]
In addition to her fiction writing and activism, Abulhawa continues to do “medical writing for journals and drug companies.”
Susan Abulhawa - Wikipedia