Fatima Dhiab

Her works have been included in several collections, and at least one poem set to music, and featured in a festival of Arabic poetry in 2009. Some of her works have been translated into other languages, including Hebrew and English.

Her first novel, "Journey on a Train of the Past," was published in 1973, in a volume with several short stories. Her play "Carry Your Secret" won the House of Karma Theater Award in 1978. She also won the Literary Achievement Award, and several honorable mentions and other recognition of her work.

In the early 1970s, Dhiab was one of very few Arab women writing and being published within Israel. She wrote short stories, novels, children's books, plays, and poetry. Unlike her contemporaries on the other side of the Green Line, Dhiab avoided writing about political-national issues. Some researchers posit that this was due to fear of retaliations by the authorities. In her poetry, however, she did take inspiration from Palestinian nationalist poet Mahmoud Darwish, and stressed the importance of time, place, and context - which is nevertheless political. In her writing about women in Arab society, she also wrote about rape, which was considered a taboo subject, and she was targeted by family and strangers alike because of this. It took her almost a decade to return to her writing.

Fatima Dhiab (in Arabic: فاطمة ذياب; born in 1951) is an Arab-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet.

Dhiab was born in Tamra, a village in the Galilee, in 1951. She finished her elementary studies in her hometown and then completed her secondary education in Nazareth.