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Susan Abulhawa

Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967, when her family was disassembled and their land seized. She grew up in several places, including Kuwait, Jordan and occupied East Jerusalem before coming to the United States. She completed graduate studies at the University of South Carolina in biomedical science and established a successful career in medical science. Frustrated by biased news coverage of the plight of Palestinians, Susan began to write op-eds for newspapers in the U.S. Her essays have appeared in major print media, such as the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, and more. Susan is a contributing author to two anthologies, Shattered Illusions (Amal Press 2002) and Searching Jenin (Cune Press 2003). She is also the founder of Playgrounds For Palestine, an NGO dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children living under occupation. The Scar of David , her first novel, is a historic fiction set in the lap of one of the 20th century's most intractable political co

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Susan Abulhawa

Palestinian-American writer and political activist

Susan Abulhawa (Arabic: سوزان أبو الهوى; born June 3, 1970) is a Palestinian-American scientist, writer and activist. Her first novel, Mornings in Jenin, was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies. The sales and reach of her debut novel made Abulhawa the most widely read Palestinian author of all time.^[1] Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water (2015), was translated in 19 languages. Against the Loveless World, her third novel, was released in August 2020, also to critical acclaim.^[2]^[3]^[4] She is a human rights activist and animal rights advocate^[5] and founded the children’s organization Playgrounds for Palestine.

Early life and education

Abulhawa's parents, born in At-Tur a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives east of the Old City of Jerusalem, were refugees of the 1967 war. Her father, according to one account, "was expelled at gunpoint; her mother, who was studying in Germany at the time, was unable to r

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Susan Abulhawa

By Susie Day

Note: This is a slight edit of an interview that first appeared in Counterpunch, Aug. 27. 2023.

In Palestine — a country whose existence goes unrecognized by most of the West — Palestinians are arrested, humiliated, beaten, killed by Israeli military or settlers every day, if not every hour. What began in 1948 as the Nakba has taken on force, ramped up control, occupied every aspect of Palestinian life. And, given Israel’s “most right-wing government in history,” what had shown no signs of stopping is now getting worse.

Here, in the United States, we barely talk of this. But Susan Abulhawa, descendant of generations of Palestinian refugees, is doing all she can to talk about Palestine. She does this by telling us stories.

Abulhawa’s parents came from Jerusalem’s Al-Tur neighborhood, but were forced out by the 1967 War. Born in 1970, Abulhawa grew up in Kuwait, Jordan, Jerusalem, and since the age of 13, has lived in the United States. Although in school she was tracked into science, she began writing fiction in her 30s. “Mornings in