Najwa Kawar Farah


Najwa Kawar Farah, is a Palestinian educator and writer.
She was born Najwa Kawar in Nazareth and was educated there, later attending the Teachers' Academy in Jerusalem. She taught school in Nazareth. She married Reverend Rafiq Farah in 1950; the couple produced the magazine al-Ra'id in 1967. Farah also wrote articles for the press and for radio. She lived in Haifa until the mid-1960s, when she left the region.
The family moved to Jerusalem in 1965, then to Beirut in 1977 and to London in 1986. Since 1998, they have been living in Scarborough in Ontario, Canada.

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