
The Artist:
Sahar Khalifeh was born in 1941 in the city of Nablus. She
was married in 1959 after her high school graduation in a
traditional match that ended in divorce 13 years later. She
has two daughters, and lives between Amman, Jordan; and Nablus.
Education:
Sahar Khalifeh
completed her secondary education in 1959 in Amman at the Rosary
College. She began a new life after her divorce, and completed a
BA in English literature from Bir Zeit University. In 1980 she obtained
a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States and obtained
an MA in English literature from Chapel -Hill University in North
Carolina. She also completed a Ph.D in women’s studies and
American literature from Iowa University in 1988.
Profession:
Khalifeh returned to Palestine in 1988, and founded the Women’s
Affairs Center in Nablus, which opened a branch in Gaza City in 1991,
and in Amman in 1994.
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