Najwa Kawar Farah

Najwa Kawar Farah (30 April 1923 to 1 August 2015) was a Palestinian educator and writer. Born Najwa Kawar in Nazareth, she was educated there, later attended the Teachers' Academy in Jerusalem, and taught school in Nazareth. She married Reverend Rafiq Farah in 1950, and in 1967 the couple produced the magazine al-Ra'id. She also wrote articles for the press and for radio, and her published works include short stories, plays, an autobiography, a series of children's stories and a novel. She lived in Haifa until the mid-1960s, after which the family moved to Jerusalem, Beirut, London and finally Scarborough in Ontario, Canada. She died in Toronto.