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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Siham Daoud is a Palestinian poet, journalist and translator. She was born in 1935 in the city of Ramle, to a Christian father of Egyptian origin and a Palestinian mother. She worked as editor of the cultural magazine Masharef and co-founded it with Emile Habibi in 1995. She managed Emile Habibi's literary and political legacy after his death in 1996.
her career
After finishing high school, she worked as a reporter and editor in the Arab press between 1973 and 1989. She held the position of editorial coordinator for Al-Ittihad newspaper, which was headed by Emile Habibi, and contributed to making the weekly newspaper a daily.
She co-founded the “Israeli and Palestinian Creative Committee against the Occupation and for Peace and Freedom of Creativity” in 1985, a forum that brought together Israeli cultural producers and creators, from within the Green Line and from the West Bank, including: Dalia Rafikowitz, Nathan Zak, Nissim Calderon, Yoram Kenyon and many others. The activities of the forum continued until the death of Emile Habibi on May 6, 1996, who had held the position of co-chairman of the project.
In 1989, she co-founded Arabsek Publishing House in partnership with Emile Habibi, the publishing house that published Masharef magazine.
In the period between May 1 and May 3, 1996, Siham invited her boyfriend, the poet Mahmoud Darwish, on his first secret visit to his homeland after a 26-year exile, to participate in a film by director Dalia Karpel entitled “I Stayed in Haifa,” which deals with the life of Emile Habibi, who passed away Several hours before Mahmoud Darwish arrived inside the Israeli border, and as a result, Mahmoud Darwish and Emile Habibi did not meet.
Siham Daoud returned to work on the editorial board of Al-Ittihad newspaper between 1998-2001.
her achievements
She received the Berelson Prize from Ben-Gurion University in 1997 for her cultural contribution to the understanding of the Palestinian and Israeli peoples in the cultural field.
She started and co-edited and co-authored between her and Eri Sella between 2000-2006 from the Hebrew-Arabic Poetry subgroup of the “Helicon” magazine, whose graduates included the best young poets who are writers of Hebrew and Arabic today.
In 2001, I began editing and creating a track of activities in memory of Emile Habibi in cooperation with the Karma House Cultural Center, and the idea was honored by the Rotary International Prize.
of her books
This is how I sing, Salah El-Din Publications, Jerusalem
A collection of poetry entitled Love in the White Sea
She also translated many poems from Hebrew into Arabic.
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