Titles

• Missing picture | Sura mafquda  (2019) – view details

Biography

Born in Gaza in 1978, Asma Al Atawna is a Palestinian bedouin from the desert of Al Naqb, and a French citizen resident of Toulouse since 2001. Graduate of English literature from the University of Al Azhar, she then obtained her masters in geopolitics from Sciences Po, in Toulouse. While in Gaza, Asma worked at the Spanish press agency EFE. Today, she is a member of the  board at the institute for experimental arts La Petite, in the cinema domain. Al Atawna is noticed for her involvement in art and gender issues.

In the press

“Off the beaten track. Asma Al Atawna does not quench the thirst of the reader who expects to find a Palestinian novel abounding in the vocabulary of the Arab-Israeli struggle and struggle. Rather, she presents her individual suffering as a woman eager for freedom within a society that, while it is experiencing the crisis of occupation, and all its horrible details, (…) is traditional and conservative, suffocating its women.

She also blows up the clichés in which the Western reader is tempted to frame Palestinian women come from a camp – like a saint.

A novel written truthfully, bravely without any fear of confrontation” — Maha Hassan, novelist, for Al Araby

Cessions

• Missing picture (2019)

[Updated August 2021]