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In her novel “The Cactus,” Sahar Khalifeh portrays the plight of the Palestinian people and their suffering under the yoke of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She also depicts the daily life of Palestinian women and their relationships with men.
In this novel, Khalifeh expresses her deep belief that a woman’s feminist consciousness is an integral part of her political consciousness, and that the liberation of the homeland from occupation cannot be successful without the liberation of women from societal constraints and male guardianship.
Sahar Khalifeh is a Palestinian novelist. She has published several novels, all with Dar Al-Adab.
Her novel “Image, Icon, and Old Testament” won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, and her novel “Hot Spring” won the Prix des Lecteurs du Var.
She also received the Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature Translated into Italian, the Cervantes Prize for Literature Translated into Spanish, and the Simone de Beauvoir Prize, which she declined for nationalistic reasons. Her novels have been translated into more than 15 languages.
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