Selma Dabbagh

Selma Dabbagh (born 1970) is a British-Palestinian writer who gained fame in 2011 with "Out of It", an acclaimed novel centered on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which was nominated as a Guardian Book of the Year in 2011 and 2012 
Born in Scotland, Dabbagh is the daughter of a Palestinian father from Jaffa and an English mother. Now a full-time writer of fiction, she has spent lengthy periods in Kuwait, France, Egypt and Bahrain, with almost annual visits to Palestine. Before concentrating on writing, she worked as a human rights lawyer in London with frequent visits to the West Bank and Cairo. Since 2004, she has written short stories which have appeared in "New Writing 15" and "Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women". She has twice been a finalist in the Fish Short Story Prize for "Beirut-Paris-Beirut" (2005) and "Aubergine" (2004). In 2014, her radio play "The Brick" was broadcast by the BBC.
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 5. http://kashmirdispatch.com/2015/11/22/book-review-out-of-it-a-window-to-palestine/913/