Sumaya Farhat-Naser
Sumaya Farhat-Naser ( Arabic سمية فرحات ناصر Sumayya Farhat Nasir , DMG Sumaiya Farḥāt Nāṣir ); (Born June 11, 1948 in Bir Zait near Jerusalem ) is a Palestinian peace broker in the West Bank .
Live and act
The Palestinian Christian attended the Talitha Kumi boarding school for German deaconesses in Bait Jala near Bethlehem . After graduating from high school, she studied biology, geography and educational science at the University of Hamburg , where she was supported by the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst , and did her doctorate in applied botany .
From 1982 to 1997 she was a lecturer in botany and ecology at the Palestinian University of Bir Zait . From 1997 to 2001 she was director of the Palestinian Jerusalem Center for Women , which works together with the Israeli group " Bat Shalom " for peace.
Sumaya Farhat-Naser is known for her expressions of opinion to the media and, in particular, for her various projects in which she motivates women to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Farhat-Naser is married and has three children.
Fonts
Publications
- The Olives of Palestine and its Problems , Birzeit University Press, 1980
- Medical Plants in Occupied Palestine
- The Geographical Situation of the Olive Tree in: Shuun Tanmawiyyeh, Vol. 2 No. 1, Jerusalem 1992
- Thyme and stones . A Palestinian life story . Lenos , Basel 1995; 7th act. A. 2008, ISBN 978-3-85787-719-3 ; selected as a book for the city 2012 in Cologne and the Cologne region.
- Rooted in the land of the olive trees. A Palestinian woman fighting for peace . Lenos, Basel 2002; as paperback: ibid. 2005, ISBN 3-85787-688-3
- Thistles in the vineyard. Diary from Palestine . Lenos, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-85787-716-2
- In the shade of the fig tree . Lenos, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-85787-436-9
- A life for peace, reader from Palestine . Lenos, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-85787-479-6
Press
- “'More and more threatened in our existence'. The Palestinian woman Sumaya Farhat-Naser in conversation with Dolores Bauer. ”In: Die Furche , No. 13, 2002.
- Acceptance speech Hermann Kesten Prize 2002. In: Die Zeit , No. 5, 2003.
Awards
- 1989 Honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Münster
- 1995 Bruno Kreisky Prize for services to human rights
- 1997 Mount Zion Award for Reconciliation
- 1997 Evangelical Book Prize
- 2000 Augsburg Peace Prize
- 2002 Hermann Kesten Prize from the PEN Center
- 2002 Bremen Solidarity Prize
- 2003 Profax Prize from the University of Education in Zurich
- 2011 AMOS Prize of the Open Church (OK) .
Web links
- Literature by and about Sumaya Farhat-Naser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Sumaya Farhat-Naser at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ AMOS award ceremony 2011 to Dr. Sumaya Farhat-Naser and Reuven Moskovitz , Open Church (OK) , March 20, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farhat-Naser, Sumaya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Farhat Nasir, Sumayya |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palestinian peace broker in the West Bank |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bir Zait near Jerusalem |