Suad Amiry

Suad Amiry

Suad Amiry ( Arabic سعاد العامري, DMG Suʿād al-ʿĀmirī ; * 1951 ) is a Palestinian author and architect .

Life

Suad Amiry grew up as the daughter of Palestinian parents who had to flee Jaffa in 1948 in Amman , Damascus , Beirut and Cairo . She studied architecture at the American University in Beirut, followed by study visits to the University of Michigan and University of Edinburgh . She returned to Ramallah as a tourist in 1981 . There she met her future husband, the sociologist Salim Tamari. She still lives in Ramallah today.

Peace and culture work

Suad Amiry is a member of several peace organizations run by Palestinian and Israeli women. From 1991 to 1993 she was a member of a Palestinian delegation to peace talks in Washington, DC

Her book "Sharon and My Mother-in-Law" has been translated into 19 languages. It was a bestseller in France, among other places, and received the prestigious Italian literary prize Premio Viareggio in 2004 together with Manuela Dviri, a Jewess living in Italy and Israel , a journalist, playwright and author whose son was killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack .

Amiry worked as a lecturer at the University of Bir Zait until 1991 , and in 1991 she founded the Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation , which is the first institution of its kind to document, protect and preserve the architectural heritage in Palestine.

From 1994 to 1996 she was Deputy State Secretary and Director General in the Palestinian Ministry of Culture. Since 2006 she has been Vice President of the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University.

Fonts

• Space, Kinship and Gender: The Social Dimension of Peasant Architecture in Palestine , University of Edinburgh, 1990
• Sharon and my mother-in-law: Diary of the war from Ramallah, Palestine , from Italy. by Annette Kopetzki, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, ISBN 978-3-596-16517-9
• If this is life: Stories from Palestine , from the English by Eva Kemper, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-17081-4
• Nothing to Lose but Your Life: An 18-Hour Journey with Murad , Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-99921-42-05-9 .

Web links

• Radio Interview - Recording from BBC Radio 4 's Woman's Hour
• Visit to the Palestine Center (Washington DC) for a talk and book signing. Read the transcript online at http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/14118 or watch the video of her talk at https://web.archive.org/web/20100714185625/http://thejerusalemfund. org / ht / display / ContentDetails / i / 14105 / pid / 3584
• Lecture by Suad Amiry at the TEDxRamallah on June 26, 2011
• Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation
• Literature by and about Suad Amiry in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk7joCi-gXs
2. ↑ Suad Amiry , Penguin Random House.
3. ↑ "Suad Amiry" , This Week In Palestine , accessed on 8 June of 2019.
4. ↑ http://www.riwaq.org/ Riwaq Center.
5. ↑ http://www.birzeit.edu/anouncements/news-d?news_id=189332  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.