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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Shahla Kayyali (1942-2006), Palestinian poet, poem organizer, and activist for the right of return.
her life
Shahla Khalil Ragheb al-Kayyali was born in the village of Lod in Palestine in 1942 AD. She was expelled from it in the year of the Nakba in 1948, when she went to Jordan. I studied in Zarqa schools. She obtained a bachelor's degree from Beirut Arab University in 1977. She worked as a teacher and principal in the schools of the UNRWA International Relief Agency in Jordan during the years 1958-2000. She worked as an article writer for the Jordanian Al-Rai newspaper from 1980 until her death. She joined the Jordanian Writers Association, the Jordanian Women's Union, the Arab Network Association, the Association for Developmental Families, and the Educational Committee for Palestinian Childhood (1987-1994). She has dramas for children, including: Sabra and Shatila, Wedding of the Sun, On the Wing of a Cloud, The Key.
She was called the “Oak of Palestine” and this may be due to her strength and steadfastness, especially in the face of cancer, which she contracted in 1986, as it started with her from the breast and moved during the twenty years that she spent facing this malignant disease all the way to the liver, until he was finally able to cure her in 2006 AD. She won the Queen Noor Award for Children's Literature, the National Childhood Association Award, and the Education Cup in 1995.
Her books for adults
1. Words in the wound (poetry), Beirut: The Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing, 1985.
2. And the strings of silence were broken (poetry), Beirut: The Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing, 1987.
3. Steps Above the Waves (Poetry), Beirut: The Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing, 1992.
4. My Face There (Poetry) Beirut: The Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing, Beirut, 1997.
She also has books for children, most notably:
1. One Question (a story for children) Amman, 1996.
2. In the Grandmother's Closet (a children's story), Amman, 1996.
3. The Monkey and the Sunflower (a story for children), Amman, 1996.
1996.4.The dream became a reality (a story for children), Amman, 1996.
5. The Pigeon's Egg (a story for children), Amman, The National Association for Childhood, 1995.
6. The Rope Game (a story for children), Amman, the National Association for Childhood, 1995.
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