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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Bassima Halawa (1949 - 1979) is a Palestinian poet and short story writer. She was born in Nablus and died in the USA. She has a poetry book entitled "Three Poetic Hymns" and a collection of short stories entitled "Green Almonds".
Basma Halawa was born in the city of Nablus in 1949 and received her primary and secondary education there. Then she joined the University of Jordan, and graduated with a BA from the Sociology Department in 1972. After graduating, she worked as a librarian for the Jerusalem municipal library. She wrote short stories and poetry, and was published in Palestinian and Arab magazines and newspapers.
In August 1976, she married the Egyptian poet Zine El Abidine Fouad, whom she met at the house of the poet Ahmed Fouad Negm in Cairo.
Basema Halawa was suffering from a chronic heart disease, and she died in 1979 in the United States, where she was undergoing a heart operation, and she recommended that she be buried in her hometown, and that the coffin be circulated in the streets of Nablus.
Her literary works:
Three poetic hymns, a poetry collection
Green Almonds, a collection of short stories
She prepared a collection of short stories for printing, and sent it to the publisher in Lebanon, but it was lost during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
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Achievements and Awards
She was awarded the Jerusalem Medal for Culture, Arts and Letters in 1990.
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