![]() ![]() ![]() Earlier being a Palestinian, Abulhawa has to face some problems regarding the publication of the novel. She lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania with her daughter.Ībulhawa published her first novel entitled as The Scar of David in 2006 but it was French editor, Marc Parent, who bought the rights and brought out the novel in translation with a new name: Mornings in Jenin. They were successful in erecting first playground in early 2002. She is also the founder of a non-governmental organization, Playgrounds for Palestine, which is an NGO working for the upliftment of Palestinian children by building playgrounds in Palestine and UN refugee camps in Lebanon. ![]() Her novel, The Mornings in Jenin is the bestselling novel published in 2010 based on the holocaust inflicted on a family. She is a Palestinian-American writer and a human right activist. She did not grow up among her parents very much but in the US she lived in a foster care system. She grew up in Dar al Tifli orphanage in Jerusalem for three years before moving to US at the age of 13, which has been shown in Julian Schnabel’s film Miral. Susan Abulhawa was born in a Palestinian refugee family in 1970 in Kuwait, she and her family have witnessed displacement and dislocation because of the occupation of the Palestinian territory by the Israeli forces. Susan Abulhawa’s The Morning in Jenin, Bloomsbury, London, 2010, Pages 338, Rs 350. ![]()
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