Najwa Kawar Farah ( ar, نجوى قعوار فرح), (April 30, 1923 - August 1, 2015) was a

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educator and writer. She was born Najwa Kawar in

Nazareth Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...

and was educated there, later attending the Teachers' Academy in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. She taught school in Nazareth. She married Reverend Rafiq Farah in 1950; the couple produced the magazine ''al-Ra'id'' in 1967. Farah also wrote articles for the press and for radio. She lived in

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until the mid-1960s, when she left the region. The family moved to Jerusalem in 1965, then to

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in 1977 and to

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in 1986. Since 1998, they lived in

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in Ontario, Canada. She died on August 1, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.

Selected works

* Abiru al-sabil'' (The passersby), short stories (1954) * ''Durub masabih'' (Lamp paths), short stories (1956) * ''Mudhakkirat rihla'' (Memoirs of journey), autobiography (1957) * ''Sirr Shahrazad'' (Sheherazade's secret), play (1958) * ''Malik al-majd'' (King of glory), play (1961) * ''Li-man al-rabi'?'' (Who owns spring), short stories (1963) * ''Silsilat qisas li-I-ashbal'' (A series of stories for young ones), children's literature (1963–65), 3 volumes * ''Intifadat al- 'asafir'' (The sparrow's uprising), short stories (1991) * ''Sukkan al-tabiq al- 'ulwi'' (The people upstairs), novel (1996)

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* * 1923 births 2015 deaths Palestinian short story writers Palestinian dramatists and playwrights Palestinian women dramatists and playwrights Palestinian Christians 20th-century Palestinian women writers 20th-century Palestinian writers 21st-century Palestinian women writers 21st-century Palestinian writers Palestinian expatriates in Lebanon Palestinian expatriates in the United Kingdom Palestinian expatriates in Canada Women educators {{Palestine-writer-stub