Ghada Karmi

Her memoir is entitled In Search of Fatima: a Palestinian Story and her new book is Married to Another Man, Pluto, June 2007. She is a research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, England. She was born in Jerusalem, but left with her family in 1948. She was brought up in Britain, and gained a doctorate in the history of Arabic medicine from London University.