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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Yasmin Zahran was born in 1933 in Ramallah, Palestine. She was educated at Colombia University, New York, and the University of London, and received a doctorate in archaeology at the Sorbonne, Paris.
She worked for UNESCO for a number of years and established, directed, and taught at the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem (1991 - 95).
She divides her time between Paris and Ramallah, where she writes and researches, besides travelling extensively to visit archaeological sites.
Publications: (English)
A Beggar at Damascus Gate
Ghassan Resurrected
Philip the Arab
The Lakhmids of Hira
Septimius Severus - Countdown to Death
Zenobia Between Reality and Legend
(Arabic)
al-Lahn al-awwal min ayyam Filistin (The first Melody from the days of Palestine, novel), 1991- اللحن الأول من أيام فلسطين
Harat al-Bayadir (al-Bayadir Alley, novel). 1999 - حارة البيادر
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