Nathalie Handal

Nathalie Handal (born July 29, 1969) is a Palestinian poet, writer and playwright and a literary researcher.

Career

Handal graduated with a MPhil English and Drama at Queen Mary College, University of London. She got an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College, Vermont and a Master of Arts in English and her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Communications at Simmons College, Boston.

She has given lectures on Ethnic-American literature at the Sorbonne in Paris

Books and audio

• The Poetry of Arab Women (October 2000) ISBN 978-1-56656-374-1 (an Academy of American Poets Bestseller and Winner of the Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Award)
• The Lives of Rain (March 2005) ISBN 978-1-56656-602-5
• The Neverfield Poem (March 2005) ISBN 978-1-56656-595-0
• Traveling Rooms (1999) - a CD of poetry and improvisational music by Russian musicians, Vladimir Miller and Alexander Alexandrov

Publications

• Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile at Progressive.org

External links

• Nathalie Handal's official website
• Profile of Nathalie Handal at the Institute for Middle East Understanding

References and sources

• levantinecenter.org
• literati-magazine.com