Najwa Kawar Farah (Arabic: نجوى قعوار فرح), (1923 - August 2015) is a Palestinian educator and writer.[1]
She was born Najwa Kawar in Nazareth and was educated there, later attending the Teachers' Academy in Jerusalem. She taught school in Nazareth. She married Reverend Rafiq Farah[1] in 1950;[2] the couple produced the magazine al-Ra'id in 1967. Farah also wrote articles for the press and for radio. She lived in Haifa until the mid-1960s, when she left the region.[1]
The family moved to Jerusalem in 1965, then to Beirut in 1977 and to London in 1986. Since 1998, they have been living in Scarborough in Ontario, Canada.[2]
Selected works[1] edit
- 'Abiru al-sabil (The passersby), short stories (1954)
- Durub masabih (Lamp paths), short stories (1956)
- Mudhakkirat rihla (Memoirs of journey), autobiography (1957)
- Sirr Shahrazad (Sheherazade's secret), play (1958)
- Malik al-majd (King of glory), play (1961)
- Li-man al-rabi'? (Who owns spring), short stories (1963)
- Silsilat qisas li-I-ashbal (A series of stories for young ones), children's literature (1963–65), 3 volumes
- Intifadat al- 'asafir (The sparrow's uprising), short stories (1991)
- Sukkan al-tabiq al- 'ulwi (The people upstairs), novel (1996)
References edit
- ^ a b c d Ashour, Radwa; Ghazoul, Ferial (2008). Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999. pp. 220, 382–83. ISBN 978-1617975547.
- ^ a b "The Ven. Rafiq Farah". Church of St. Andrew, Scarborough. Archived from the original on 2015-02-10.
External links edit
- "Najwa Kawar Farah - A Personal Voyage".
- Robson, Laura (Summer 2014). "The Making of Palestinian Christian Womanhood: Gender, Class, and Community in Mandate Palestine" (PDF). Journal of Levantine Studies. 4 (1): 41–63. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-02-10.
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