Fadwa Touqan
فدوى طوقان
1917–2003
Nablus, Palestine
One of the most celebrated female poets of the Arab world, Touqan gave voice to love, loss, and the Palestinian struggle from her home in Nablus.
Fadwa Touqan was born into a wealthy literary family in Nablus in 1917. She transformed a sheltered upbringing into a life of public poetry, becoming one of the first major Palestinian women writers to publish under her own name. Her work moves between romantic lyric and political testimony, and she remained in Nablus through decades of occupation.
Selected works
- A Mountain Road (1952)
- Alone with the Days (1952)
- The Night and the Horsemen (1988)
- The Last Melody (1999)
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- Nablusنابلس
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: birthplace: "Nablus, Palestine" → Nablus (Nablus Governorate, northern West Bank)
written by them — 2 records
- Enough for Me
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: poetSlug: "fadwa-touqan" → Fadwa Touqan
- Hamza
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: poetSlug: "fadwa-touqan" → Fadwa Touqan
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- The Poets of Exile
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Nablus's sister of sorrow: love, loss, and refusal.
- The Women of the Movement
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Her schooling was cut short and her brother Ibrahim taught her at home. She became the leading Palestinian woman poet of the century out of that arrangement.
- The Touqan familyطوقان
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: - Fadwa Touqan (1917–2003) — the "Poetess of Palestine," author of eight collections and the autobiography A Mountainous Journey.
on a related subject — 9 records
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- A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Shared tags: "poetry", "Nablus".
- Mahmoud Darwishمحمود درويش
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Shared tags: "poetry", "resistance".
- Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "resistance".
- In the Presence of Absence
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "poetry".
- Jeninجنين
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Shared tag: "resistance".
- Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
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@misc{falasteen-fadwa-touqan, title = {Fadwa Touqan}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/poetry/fadwa-touqan}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }