Ibtisam Barakat

Ibtisam Barakat

Ibtisam Barakat is a Palestinian-American writer, poet, and educator. She was born in Beit Hanina, near Jerusalem.

Barakat received her Bachelor's degree from Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah in the West Bank. In 1986, she moved to New York City, where she interned with The Nation magazine. She went on to earn a Masters degree in Journalism and Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Missouri.

Her childhood memoir, "," about growing up under Israeli occupation following the 1967 Six-Day War, was published in 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

References

* [http://imeu.net/news/article004582.shtml Profile of Ibtisam Barakat at the Institute for Middle East Understanding]
* [http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2007/05/conversation-with-ibtisam-barakat.html An Interview with Ibtisam Barakat, "Critical Mass", 14 May 2007]

External Links

* [http://imeu.net/news/article0014104.shtml Ibtisam Barakat on Mahmoud Darwish at IMEU.net]


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