Hanan Awwad

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Hanan Awwad (

From 1980 and 1982, Awwad worked as a teaching assistant in Islamic Studies at McGill University. She then worked as a researcher for the Department of Middle Eastern Studies of the National Museum of Man. Afterward, she returned to the West Bank. She was Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at the Palestinian Abu Dis College, in Jerusalem, between 1982 and 1986 before she became the Head of the Department of Humanities.^{[citation needed]}

In 1988, Awwad founded the Palestinian Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, serving as Middle East advisor.^[5] Awwad also served as the cultural advisor for Yasser Arafat from 1998 to 2004.^[2][6] Awwad also founded the Union of Palestinian Writers, the Palestinian Union of Journalists, and the PEN Center for Palestinian Writers (a section of PEN International).^[5][6] She co-signed an open letter in 2016, urging Turkey to release journalists from prison.^[7]

Selected works

Awwad writes in Arabic and below is the English translation of the titles of her poetry and books.

Poetry

• I write with my blood, 1983^[5]
• The promised return, 1988^[5]
• I chose the danger 1988^[5]

Books

• Episodes of the Siege
• Arab causes in the fiction of Ghādah al-Sammān, (1961–1975)^{[citation needed]}

References