- Suad Amiry
Suad Amiry (Arabic: سعاد العامري) (born 1951) is an author and architect living in the
West Bank town ofRamallah . She studied architecture at theAmerican University of Beirut ,Michigan , U.S. and inEdinburgh , Scotland. Her parents went from Palestine toAmman ,Jordan . She was brought up there and went toLebanon 's capital ofBeirut to studyarchitecture . When she returned to Ramallah as a tourist in 1981, she met Salim Tamari, whom she married later, and stayed.Her book "Sharon and My Mother-in-Law" has been translated into 11 languages, was a bestseller in France, and was awarded in 2004 the prestigious
Viareggio Prize inItaly together with Italo-IsraeliManuela Dviri , a journalist, playwright and writer whose son was killed by a Hezbollah rocket.From 1991 to 1993 Amiry was a member of a Palestinian peace delegation in Washington D.C. She is engaged in some major peace initiatives of Palestinian and Israeli women.
She is Director of the [http://www.riwaq.org/ Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation] which was founded with help from
Sida, the Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation, and theFord Foundation .Amiry was a member of staff at
Birzeit University until 1991, [http://www.birzeit.edu/anouncements/news-d?news_id=189332] since then she has worked for Riwaq where she is the director [http://www.riwaq.org/about/about.html] . She was appointed as a vice-chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University [http://www.birzeit.edu/anouncements/news-d?news_id=189332] in 2006.Books
* Sharon and My Mother-in-Law : Ramallah Diaries. (Hardcover)
Radio Interview
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_02_thu_01.shtml Recording from
BBC Radio 4 'sWoman's Hour ]External links
* [http://www.riwaq.org/ Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation]
* [http://www.birzeit.edu/ Birzeit University]
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