Henriette Siksek

Henriette Siksek (; 16 January 1918 - 15 March 2014), also called Henrietta Seksek, was a Palestinian children's writer, educator, and radio personality.

Life Henriette Siksek was born to Orthodox Christian parents George and Katherine Siksek in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1918. She attended Al Aswaj School in Jerusalem and the Friends Girls School in Ramallah. She earned a degree in education at the Lebanese English Girls College.

As an educator, she worked at the Alawi School and the Mamounia School in Jerusalem, and later at the American School for Girls in Beirut, Lebanon. and the California Bureau of Textbooks and Publications to study "the making and effective presentation of books for children". By 1958 she was working with the Libyan Ministry of Education. By 1971, Siksek was writing textbooks for the Jordanian Ministry of Education.

In 1939, she began working at Jerusalem Radio. Ibrahim Tuqan, who also worked at the station, gave her the broadcasting name "Miss Souad". She primarily produced children's programs, including plays, educational content, and music. She also headed a program to teach children how to work in radio. She was present at the station when it was bombed in 1939. Later, Siksek worked for Radio Lebanon and Radio Near East. and later was the "Director of the Children's Hour on the Jordanian radio". She appeared in the 2011 documentary Here is Jerusalem , about Jerusalem Radio.

Following her mother's death in 1973, Siksek took over leadership of the Four Homes of Mercy, a group of homes for the disabled which her mother had founded.

Writing Siksek wrote multiple short stories for children, and was published in magazines such as the International Red Cross magazine, Al-Nashra, Al-Bustan, and Al-Quds.

Personal life and death Siksek married Rurik Farradj. She died in Jerusalem in March 2014. Her funeral was held on 18 March at the Church of Zion for the Greek Orthodox, and she was buried in the Orthodox cemetery on Mount Zion.