Editor's Path
Women of Palestine
نساء فلسطين
They carried the homeland in their work, their courage, and their refusal to disappear — a century of Palestine told through the women who shaped it.
Across a century of upheaval, Palestinian women have led — in the classroom and the parliament, the studio and the field hospital, the football pitch and the front line of the news. This path honors women whose lives reshaped what Palestine could imagine for itself.
Some are icons; others worked far from the cameras. Poet, diplomat, painter, scientist, journalist, athlete — each widened the ground others could stand on. Their stories are not a footnote to Palestinian history; they are its spine.
Enough for me to die on her earth, be buried in her, and in her soil to melt and vanish.
Fadwa Tuqan, “Enough for Me”
People in this Collection
- Fadwa Tuqan — The 'mother of Palestinian poetry,' who turned a sheltered life into one of her people's boldest voices.
- Hind al-Husseini — She turned her family home into Dar al-Tifl, a sanctuary that raised generations of children orphaned in 1948.
- Hanan Ashrawi — Scholar and stateswoman who became the eloquent face of Palestinian diplomacy to the world.
- Leila Khaled — The most recognizable woman of the Palestinian revolution — an enduring and contested icon.
- Shireen Abu Akleh — The beloved journalist whose reporting — and whose killing — made her a symbol of Palestinian truth-telling.
- Raymonda Tawil — A fearless journalist and memoirist whose Ramallah salon became a meeting place of Palestinian political life.
- Mona Hatoum — One of the world's foremost installation artists, turning exile and the body into haunting global art.
- Emily Jacir — A leading conceptual artist who maps memory, movement, and the right of return.
- Adania Shibli — A singular contemporary novelist whose spare, exact prose reached the world stage.
- Lila Abu-Lughod — An anthropologist who reshaped how the world thinks about women, power, and representation.
- Rana Dajani — A molecular biologist and founder of 'We Love Reading,' changing lives through science and literacy.
- Rim Banna — She gave Palestinian women's voice a new music, reviving folk song as living heritage.
- Honey Thaljieh — Co-founder and first captain of Palestine's women's national football team, who turned play into pride.
A century of Palestine, told through the women who shaped it.