Selma Dabbagh

Selma Dabbagh (born 1970) is a British-Palestinian writer who gained fame in 2011 with Out of It, an acclaimed novel centered on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,[1][2] which was nominated as a Guardian Book of the Year in 2011 and 2012 [3]

Born in Scotland, Dabbagh is the daughter of a Palestinian father from Jaffa and an English mother. Now a full-time writer of fiction, she has spent lengthy periods in Kuwait, France, Egypt and Bahrain, with almost annual visits to Palestine.[1] Before concentrating on writing, she worked as a human rights lawyer in London with frequent visits to the West Bank and Cairo. Since 2004, she has written short stories which have appeared in New Writing 15 and Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women. She has twice been a finalist in the Fish Short Story Prize for Beirut-Paris-Beirut (2005) and Aubergine (2004).[2] In 2014, her radio play The Brick was broadcast by the BBC.[4]

References
  1. David B. Green. "A conversation with British-Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh". Haaretz. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  2. "Salma Dabbagh". British Council. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  3. http://selmadabbagh.com/about/
  4. "The Brick". BBC. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  5. http://kashmirdispatch.com/2015/11/22/book-review-out-of-it-a-window-to-palestine/913/


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