Ghada Karmi
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Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian-British physician, academic, writer, and political commentator born in Jerusalem in 1939. Her family was forced to leave Palestine during the Nakba in 1948, eventually settling in England, where she grew up and pursued her education. She studied medicine at the University of Bristol and later earned a doctorate in the history of Arabic medicine from the University of London. After practising as a doctor, specialising in the health of migrants and refugees, she became an influential scholar of Middle Eastern politics and Palestinian history. Her work explores displacement, exile, identity, and the enduring consequences of the loss of homeland. Her acclaimed memoir In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (2002) recounts her childhood in Jerusalem and her experience of growing up in Britain. Other notable works include Return: A Palestinian Memoir (2015) and One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel (2023).
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