SOURCE: GULF NEWS
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned Palestinian poet, writer, translator and anthologist, died on Thursday in Jordan. She was 95.
Born in 1928 in Safed to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother, Jayyusi grew up in Acre and the Baqa’a neighbourhood of West Jerusalem. Following the Nakba of 1948, she moved to Jordan.
Jayyusi studied high school at the German Schmidt College in Jerusalem, then studied Arabic and English literature at the American University of Beirut. After her studies, she returned to Jerusalem and taught at Dar Al Moalemat College.