Life History – Faiha Abdulhadi

On 22 October 2015, in Berne of Switzerland, in the mid of the 10th anniversary event held by Peace Women Across the Globe (PWAG), Faiha Abdulhadi, a member of the Palestinian National Council, told Lau Kin Chi about her childhood, family, education and work. She pointed out how her childhood was related to her commitment to people, women and her country and that her complex identity as a Palestinian and a woman provoked her reflections on connection among women’s oppression and the one of nation. What’s more, she talked about how inspirational literature was to her life and her work: inter-connections among different fields in literary world helped her understand the World. And literary themes of love/ justice/peace gave rise to her desire to work on peace. She also shared diasporic experience and her stories of being imprisoned during Israeli Occupation( which could date back to 1967). She also talked about her life after being back to her homeland.