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Sahar Khalifeh

Sahar Khalifeh was born in 1941 in Nablus. She studied English literature at Birzeit University, then, as a Fulbright scholar, at Chapel Hill, and obtained a doctorate in women's studies and American literature at the University of Iowa. Back in Nablus in 1988, she founded there a centre for women's affairs, which later opened branches in Gaza and Amman. She received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2006.

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