Born to refugees of the 1967 war and raised between Kuwait, Jordan, the United States, and an East Jerusalem orphanage, Abulhawa writes in English. Her debut novel Mornings in Jenin (2010), originally published as The Scar of David, follows four generations of a Palestinian family from the village of Ein Hod through the Nakba and into the camps; it has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Recurring themes
the four-generation Palestinian family
the camps and the diaspora
English-language Palestinian fiction
women in resistance
Selected works
- 2010Mornings in Jenin
- 2015The Blue Between Sky and Water
- 2020Against the Loveless World