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Salma Subhi Al-Khadra Al-Jayyousi is a Palestinian writer, poet, critic and translator. She was born in 1928 AD to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother in Safed, Palestine. I grew up in the city of Acre and in the Baqa’a neighborhood in West Jerusalem. She grew up in Palestine, after the Nakba of 48 she lived in Jordan. She studied high school at the German Schmidt College in Jerusalem, then studied Arabic and English literature at the American University in Beirut, then returned to Jerusalem and taught at the “College of the House of Teachers.” She obtained a PhD in Arabic literature from the University of London and taught after graduating from London in 1970, specializing in Arabic literature in many Arab and foreign universities “Khartoum, Algeria, Constantine, Utah in the United States of America, then at the University of Michigan, Washington, Texas.” She traveled With her Jordanian diplomatic husband to a number of Arab and European countries, she founded a major project that introduces Arab culture to the West. In 1980, she established the Prota project for translation, transferring Arab culture to the Anglo-Saxon world. Prota produced encyclopedias, books on Arab-Islamic civilization, novels, plays, and popular biographies. and others. And she got involved in the debate that revolved around renewal in Arabic poetry, among the great names, including Adonis, Muhammad Al-Maghout, Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab, Nazik Al-Malaika, Salah Abdel-Sabour and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. She published her poetry in many Arab magazines.
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2020, Cultural Personality of the Year Award for the 14th session of the “Sheikh Zayed Book Award”, confirming the presence of the Palestinian intellectual in general and women in particular, in cultural forums
2007 Cultural and Scientific Achievement Award, Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation
2006 Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Award
1991 Palestinian American Women's Federation Medal for Distinguished National Service
1990 Jerusalem Medal for Literary Achievement.
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