Sahar Khalifeh

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Sahar Khalifeh ( Arabic سحر خليفة, DMG Saḥar Ḫalīfa ; * September 1, 1942 in Nablus ) is a Palestinian writer .

Life

Khalifeh completed her university studies in English at the University of Bir Zait . She then studied through the Fulbright program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , and did her doctorate in women's studies at the University of Iowa before returning to Palestine in 1988.
In the meantime the First Intifada had broken out in the Palestinian Autonomous Territories , and she founded the Women's Affairs Center (WAC) in Nablus.

Sahar Khalifeh now lives in Jordan and the Palestinian territories and commutes between the cities of Amman and Nablus; she is the mother of two daughters.

plant

  • 1969 - After the defeat; the manuscript was confiscated by the Israelis when they crossed the border.
  • 1971 - We are no longer your slaves
  • 1976 - The prickly pear (in German: 1980, 1983 and 2002): The background is the Israeli occupation, and the question arises whether one should stay in the country and cooperate with the occupier.
  • 1980 - The Sunflower (in German: 1982 and 2003): Here, too, the author deals with the same questions.
  • 1986 - Memories of an Unrealistic Woman (in German: 1988)
  • 1990 - The Gate to the Field (in German: 1992): Khalifeh compares the Palestinian struggle for liberation with the struggle of women for liberation.
  • 1997 - Das Erbe (in German: 2000): This novel is a radical reckoning with the Oslo Accords that later led to the Second Intifada . Sena, the narrator in the novel, is the daughter of a Palestinian who emigrated to the United States. Exiled by her father because of a premature pregnancy, she learns to stand on her own two feet at an early age and makes an academic career. At the same time, she longs for the emotional security that she experienced in her father's family. When her father, meanwhile returned to Palestine, is dying, she visits the land of her ancestors for the first time and witnesses the most adventurous family entanglements in the dispute over the inheritance.
  • 2002 - Image, Icon and Old Testament (in German: 2004)
  • 2004 - Hot Spring (in German: 2008)
  • 2010 - first love

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Olbrich , Bernd Gräf (Ed.): Der Romanführer . Volume 24: Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Jewish, Yiddish, Israeli, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans and South African narrative prose from the beginning to the present . Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, p. 155.
  2. ↑ http://www.marabout.de/khalifa/khalifa.htm
  3. ↑ a b Hartmut Fähndrich , afterword, in: Sahar Khalifa, Der Feigenkaktus , Unionsverlag, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3293 0004 36 , p. 230
  4. ↑ http://www.marabout.de/khalifa/khalifa2.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.marabout.de/khalifa/khalifa3.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.marabout.de/khalifa/khalifa4.htm
  7. ↑ Between inheritance and departure. In: nzz.ch. March 27, 2002, accessed October 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Khalifeh, Sahar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khalifa, Sahar; Halīfa, Sọahọar; Khalifeh, Sahar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Nablus , Palestinian Territories