Raymonda Tawil
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Raymonda Hawa Tawil (
Life
Raymonda Tawil is a poet, writer and Palestinian journalist [citation needed] born in Acre in a prominent family of Palestinian Christians. She spent part of childhood as a boarder with French Catholic sisters. Her public life began with an intellectual show that was held in Nablus, northern West Bank. Independent-spirited columns earned her the nickname "The Lioness of Nablus". In 1978, Raymonda Hawa Tawil opened a Palestinian news agency in Jerusalem.[citation needed] Because of her political activities as a journalist, she was placed under house arrest for six months by Israeli military decision. She was also imprisoned for forty-five days for subversive activities during clashes with Jewish settlers and vigilantes. These experiences pushed to write about Palestine in collaboration with the Israeli journalist Peretz Kidron.[citation needed] She is a Christian who visited churches of multiple denominations, she has always advocated dialogue and reconciliation between the two peoples, a position that sometimes earned her hostility.[1][additional citation(s) needed]
Politics
Having narrowly escaped a targeted attack whose perpetrators were never found, she fled to France while
From 2004 to 2007 she lived with her daughter Suha Arafat in Tunisia. The family was evicted from Tunisian territory by then-president Ben Ali in August 2007 and subsequently took refuge in Malta. She wrote about her life experiences in memoir-like accounts.[2][3] One of her quotes was the line: "This is a strange one country where we live. Power outages are in his image. Palestine is in the night, deprived of light as freedom. From time to time the light returns. So hope returns too. And then everything stops again, everything is off. In the dark, looking for some hope and comfort. Candles are lit to try to convince yourself that all is not lost. Is this going to last? This will be the end?"[4]
Published books
Listed with original French edition first, and the English edition second.
- 1979: Mon pays, ma prison, une femme de Palestine. Paris, Éditions du Seuil, "Traversée du siècle" series.
- 1980: My Home, My Prison
- 2001: Palestine, mon histoire. Paris, Ed. du Seuil, "L'Histoire immédiate" series.[citation needed]
See also
References
- For books by Tawil, see "Published books" section in the article.