Hanan Awwad

Hanan Awwad is a Palestinian activist, advocate, and poet.

Life and education Awwad was born in 1951 in Jerusalem. She received a Diploma in Education in 1970 and she graduated from Birzeit University in 1974 with a BA in Arabic Language and Literature. In 1976, she earned a Diploma in Literary Criticism from Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, followed by an MA in 1977 in Arabic Literature and Humanities from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation explored the works of the assassinated politician Ghassan Kanafani.

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 The promised return, 1988 I chose the danger 1988

Books Episodes of the Siege Arab causes in the fiction of Ghādah al-Sammān, (1961–1975)