AMMAN — Jordanian novelist and
writer Laila Al-Atrash passed away on Sunday, according to Al-Ghad News.
Atrash devoted her writing to defending
humanitarian, social, and women’s issues through nine novels, literary works,
articles, press investigations, television programs, and works of theater.
اضافة اعلان
As an editor of the "Hewar
Al-Qalam" website, she called for rejecting extremism and social and
intellectual violence, and spreading the values of tolerance, coexistence,
and non-discrimination.
Through her position as head of the
“Jordanian PEN” center, a branch of the international organization known by the
same name that defends freedom of expression, she worked to change the stereotypical
image of Arabs and Muslims among the world’s writers, as well as introduce Arab
writers, thinkers, and translators to the world.
Atrash was born in Beit Sahour and has a
bachelor’s in law. Atrash
has won many awards, namely the State Appreciation Award in Literature in
Palestine 2017. Her novel “Taraneem Al-Guaiah” was long listed for the Arab
Booker Prize in 2016, and she was chosen among the most influential women
writers, and one of the 60 most successful Women in the Arab World, among many
other achievements.
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