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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Rawya Jarjoura Barbara is a Palestinian writer and writer, born in Nazareth, and works as a focus inspector for the Arabic language in the Ministry of Education in Israel.
The writer Rawya Jarjoura Barbara was born in the city of Nazareth on November 27, 1969 to a Nasrawi family. She got married and moved to live with her family in the village of Abu Sinan in the western Galilee of the country.
She completed her secondary education at the Seminary of St. Joseph (Bishop) Seminary in Nazareth in 1987. In 1994 she completed her BA in Arabic Language and Education and Teaching Methods at Haifa University. In 2004 she received her MA with distinction from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Arabic Language, Haifa University. She obtained her doctorate in Arabic literature in a thesis she prepared on “Fatimi Poetry between Worldly and Doctrinal Meanings” under the guidance of Professor George Kanazeh and Professor Ibrahim Jeries at Haifa University in 2011. Rawya Jarjoura Barbara currently resides with her family in the village of Abu Sinan in the western Galilee of the country. Today, Rawya Barbara occupies the position of the Concentrating Inspector of the Arabic Language in the Israeli Ministry of Education. She holds the position of Concentrating Inspector of Arabic and International Literature, and also supervises the contents and curricula of Arabic literature for the post-primary stage at the Curriculum Planning and Development Center. She worked as a lecturer at Haifa University, and to this day she is a lecturer at Oranim College.
She worked as a lecturer for the Arabic language at the Western Galilee College, under a UNESCO project for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, as a guide for Arabic in secondary schools in the Druze community, as a teacher of Arabic at the comprehensive secondary school in her village of Abu Sinan, and as a lecturer in teacher completion courses. She also worked as a counselor for the Arabic language for the primary and preparatory levels in the North District. She has participated in presenting scientific and literary papers in many conferences, and has many studies and literary and critical articles. Rawya Barbara is fluent in 6 languages: Arabic, Hebrew, English, German, Bulgarian and Old Syriac. Barbara's narrator won the "Creativity" award for the short story in 2009 and the 2014 Personality of the Year award in the field of writing.
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Achievements and Awards
2009 Creativity Award Winner.
- She was awarded the Personality of the Year 2014 in the field of writing.
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