Sahar Khalifeh

Sahar Khalifeh was born in Nablus in 1941 and is the author of eight novels, including Of Noble Origin, The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant, for which she was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, and most recently, My First and Only Love. She holds a PhD in women’s studies and American literature from the University of Iowa. She divides her time between Amman and Nablus.