Fadwa Tuqan
She was greatly influenced by her brother, Ibrahim Tuqan, who was also a poet. She studied English literature at Oxford University and won several international literary awards. Over a dozen diwans, or collections of poetry, were published by her, as well as a two-part autobiography, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet’s Autobiography. In 1999, writer and filmmaker Liana Badr, wrote and directed a film about her.
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