The Modern Novel

Biography

Susan Albulhawa was born in 1970 in Kuwait. Her parents were born in East Jerusalem. They left in 1967, her father allegedly expelled at gunpoint, while her mother was studying in Germany at the time. As they were unable to return, they went first to Jordan and then Kuwait where their daughter was born. However her parents separated soon after she was born.

She lived in the United States with an uncle until she was five, then moved between relatives in Jordan and Kuwait. She lived in a Jerusalem orphanage, from the age of 10 to 13, when she came to the US, where she lived with her father briefly before entering the foster care system in the US.

As an adult she worked in the biomedical field before taking up writing. She has published three novels and a collection of poetry. She is also a founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, which builds playgrounds for Palestinian children. She is also involved in theBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) mopvement.

She has also been involved in controversy, describing Jewish Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a Nazi-promoting Zionist and accusing him of dragging the whole world into the inferno of WWIII.

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Interview
Interview
Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd must speak at Australia’s Adelaide writers’ festival