Susan Abulhawa author biography, plus links to books by Susan Abulhawa.

Susan Abulhawa

Previously published in a hardcover edition with a limited run under the title The Scar of David, this novel has been released in a fully revised, newly titled paperback edition.

Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967 and moved to the United States as a teenager. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, an NGO that builds playgrounds for Palestinian children in the occupied territories and in refugee camps elsewhere. Abulhawa has contributed essays to the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications. Mornings in Jenin marks her first major publication as a novelist.

This biography was last updated on 02/02/2010.

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