Notable Palestinians — Literature & Poetry

Notable Palestinians — Literature & Poetry

• Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008) — Mahmoud Darwish is widely regarded as the Palestinian national poet and one of the most important Ar…
• Ghassan Kanafani (1936–1972) — Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and political activist…
• Naomi Shihab Nye (1952–present) — Naomi Shihab Nye, born March 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of the most celebrated Arab Am…
• Fadwa Tuqan (1917–2003) — Fadwa Tuqan, often called "the Poet of Palestine," was among the most important Arab women poets of…
• Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920–1994) — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra was a Palestinian novelist, poet, critic, painter, and translator, one of the mo…
• Emile Habibi (1922–1996) — Emile Habibi was a Palestinian novelist and politician who remained inside the borders of the new st…
• Sahar Khalifeh (1941–present) — Sahar Khalifeh is among the foremost Palestinian novelists and the most prominent female voice in th…
• Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1925–2023) — Salma Khadra Jayyusi was a Palestinian poet, scholar, anthologist, and translator who did more than…
• Samih al-Qasim (1939–2014) — Samih al-Qasim was one of the foremost poets of Palestinian resistance, a writer whose stature withi…
• Ibrahim Nasrallah (1954–present) — Ibrahim Nasrallah is a major Palestinian poet and novelist, born in 1954 in the Wahdat refugee camp…
• Ibrahim Tuqan (1905–1941) — Ibrahim Tuqan was a pioneering Palestinian nationalist poet of the late Ottoman and British Mandate…
• Mourid Barghouti (1944–2021) — Mourid Barghouti was a Palestinian poet and memoirist whose work gave one of the most refined litera…
• May Ziadeh (1886–1941) — May Ziadeh (born Marie Elias Ziadeh, 11 February 1886, Nazareth) was a poet, essayist, translator, o…
• Adania Shibli (1974–present) — Adania Shibli is a leading contemporary Palestinian novelist and essayist, widely regarded as one of…
• Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011) — Taha Muhammad Ali was a Palestinian poet and short-story writer, born in 1931 in the Galilee village…
• Raja Shehadeh (1951–present) — Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian writer, lawyer, and human rights pioneer, widely regarded as the lead…
• Susan Abulhawa (1970–present) — Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American novelist, poet, and activist who has become one of the most…
• Mosab Abu Toha (1992–present) — Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, essayist, and librarian, born on 17 November 1992 in the Al-Sh…
• Suheir Hammad (1973–present) — Suheir Hammad (born 25 October 1973) is a Palestinian American poet, performer, and political activi…
• Sayed Kashua (1975–present) — Sayed Kashua, born in 1975 in Tira, an Arab town in the Triangle region of Israel, is a Palestinian…
• Tawfiq Zayyad (1929–1994) — Tawfiq Zayyad was a Palestinian poet, political leader, and one of the central figures of the resist…
• Najwan Darwish (1978–present) — Najwan Darwish is a Palestinian poet, born in Jerusalem in 1978, widely regarded as one of the forem…
• Tawfiq Sayigh (1923–1971) — Tawfiq Sayigh was a Palestinian poet, translator, and editor regarded as one of the most original an…
• Hala Alyan (1986–present) — Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist whose work has made h…
• Khalil Beidas (1874–1949) — Khalil Beidas was a Palestinian scholar, educator, translator, and novelist often credited as a fath…
• Ishaq Musa al-Husayni (1904–1990) — Ishaq Musa al-Husayni was born in Jerusalem on 25 December 1904 into the prominent Husayni family, o…
• Abd al-Rahim Mahmud (1913–1948) — Abd al-Rahim Mahmud was born in 1913 in the small town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm in the Galilee-fac…
• Asma Tubi (1905–1983) — Asma Rizq Tubi was born in 1905 in Nazareth, then part of Ottoman Palestine, into a cultured Christi…