Najwa Kawar Farah Explained
| Native Name: | نجوى قعوار فرح |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Birth Name: | Najwa Kawar |
| Birth Date: | 30 April 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Nazareth Palestine |
| Death Place: | Toronto, Canada |
| Nationality: | Palestinian |
| Occupation: | Writer, educator |
Najwa Kawar Farah (Arabic: نجوى قعوار فرح), (April 30, 1923 - August 1, 2015) was a Palestinian educator and writer.
She was born Najwa Kawar in Nazareth and was educated there, later attending the Teachers' Academy in Jerusalem. She taught school in Nazareth. She married Reverend Rafiq Farah in 1950; the couple produced the magazine al-Ra'id in 1967. Farah also wrote articles for the press and for radio. She lived in Haifa until the mid-1960s, when she left the region.[1]
The family moved to Jerusalem in 1965, then to Beirut in 1977 and to London in 1986. Since 1998, they lived in Scarborough in Ontario, Canada.[2]
She died on August 1, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.[3]
Selected works[1]
- Abiru al-sabil (The passersby), short stories (1954)
- Durub masabih (Lamp paths), short stories (1956)
- Mudhakkirat rihla (Memoirs of journey), autobiography (1957)
- Sirr Shahrazad (Sheherazade's secret), play (1958)
- Malik al-majd (King of glory), play (1961)
- Li-man al-rabi'? (Who owns spring), short stories (1963)
- Silsilat qisas li-I-ashbal (A series of stories for young ones), children's literature (1963–65), 3 volumes
- Intifadat al- 'asafir (The sparrow's uprising), short stories (1991)
- Sukkan al-tabiq al- 'ulwi (The people upstairs), novel (1996)
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Ashour, Radwa . Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 . 220, 382–83 . Ghazoul, Ferial . 2008 . American University in Cairo Press . 978-1617975547.
- Web site: The Ven. Rafiq Farah . Church of St. Andrew, Scarborough . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150210090043/http://www.st-andrew-anglican.ca/farah.html . 2015-02-10 .
- News: Najwa Farah . 23 August 2015 . Washington Post . legacy.com . 1 June 2024.
