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'''Suad Amiry''' ({{lang-ar|سعاد العامري}}) (born 1951) is an author and also an architect living in the [[West Bank]] city of [[Ramallah]]. She studied architecture at the [[American University of Beirut]], the [[University of Michigan]], and the [[University of Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]]. Her parents went from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] to [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]. She was brought up there and went to [[Lebanon]]'s capital of [[Beirut]] to study [[architecture]]. When she returned to Ramallah as a tourist in 1981, she met [[Salim Tamari]], whom she married later, and stayed.
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'''Suad Amiry''' ({{lang-ar|سعاد العامري}}) (born 1951) is a Palestinian author and architect living in the [[West Bank]] city of [[Ramallah]].


==Education==
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Her book "Sharon and My Mother-in-Law" has been translated into 19 languages, the last one in Arabic, which was a bestseller in [[France]], and was awarded in 2004 the prestigious [[Viareggio Prize]] in [[Italy]] together with Italo-Israeli [[Manuela Dviri]], a journalist, playwright and writer whose son was killed by a Hezbollah rocket.
Her parents went from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] to [[Amman, Jordan]]. She was brought up there and went to [[Lebanon]]'s capital of [[Beirut]] to study [[architecture]]. She studied architecture at the [[American University of Beirut]], the [[University of Michigan]], and the [[University of Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]].


==Personal life==
From 1991 to 1993 Amiry was a member of a Palestinian peace delegation in [[Washington, D.C.]]. She is engaged in some major peace initiatives of Palestinian and Israeli women.
When she returned to Ramallah as a tourist in 1981, she met [[Salim Tamari]], whom she married later, and stayed.


==Career==
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She is Director and founder of the [http://www.riwaq.org/ Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation], the center was founded in 1991; the first of its kind to work on the rehabilitation and protection of architectural heritage in Palestine.
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Her book ''Sharon and My Mother-in-Law'' has been translated into 19 languages, the last one in Arabic, which was a bestseller in France, and was awarded in 2004 the prestigious [[Viareggio Prize]] in Italy together with Italo-Israeli [[Manuela Dviri]], a journalist, playwright, and writer whose son was killed by a [[Hezbollah]] rocket during a confrontation while he was serving in the [[Israeli Army]].


From 1991 to 1993 Amiry was a member of a Palestinian peace delegation in [[Washington, D.C.]] She is engaged in some major peace initiatives of Palestinian and Israeli women, including serving as Palestinian team coordinator for the Jerusalem program at the Smithsonian Institution's 1993 Folklife Festival.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Amiry |first1=Suad |last2=Johnson |first2=Penny |date=1993 |title=Representing Jerusalem: An Interview with Suad Amiry |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3013121 |journal=Middle East Report |issue=182 |pages=22–23 |doi=10.2307/3013121 |jstor=3013121 |issn=0899-2851}}</ref>
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Amiry was a member of staff at [[Birzeit University]] until 1991 [http://www.birzeit.edu/anouncements/news-d?news_id=189332]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}, since then she has worked for Riwaq where she is the director [https://web.archive.org/web/20061210223113/http://www.riwaq.org/about/about.html]. She was appointed as a vice-chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University [http://www.birzeit.edu/anouncements/news-d?news_id=189332]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} in 2006.

From 1994 to 1996 she was the Assistant Deputy Minister and Director General of the [[Palestinian Authority]]'s Ministry of Culture.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/67530/suad-amiry/| title = Suad Amiry {{!}} Penguin Random House}}</ref>

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She is Director and founder of the Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation, the center was founded in 1991; the first of its kind to work on the rehabilitation and protection of architectural heritage in Palestine.

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Amiry was a member of staff at [[Birzeit University]] until 1991,<ref name="auto">http://www.birzeit.edu/anouncements/news-d?news_id=189332 {{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref> since then she has worked for Riwaq where she is the director.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.riwaq.org/about/about.html|title=About Riwaq|date=10 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210223113/http://www.riwaq.org/about/about.html|archive-date=10 December 2006}}</ref> She was appointed as a vice-chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University <ref name="auto"/> in 2006.

==Riwaq==
One of Riwaq's first projects was the compilation of a registry of buildings of significant historical value in Palestine. Completed in 2004, it listed 50,000 buildings, around half of which were abandoned.
In 2001 Riwaq launched a ten year program of job creation through conservation (''tashgheel''). Workers were trained in the use of traditional materials and techniques.
In 2005 they launched the 50 villages project restoring public spaces and involving villagers in renovating their own properties.<ref>[[Andrew Ross (sociologist)|Ross, Andrew]] (2019) ''Stone Men. The Palestinians Who Built Israel.'' [[Verso Books|Verso]]. {{ISBN|978-1-78873-026-6}} p.103</ref>
Riwaq has also done important work on the so-called "[[throne village]]s" (''qura al-karasi''), the centres of [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] tax districts.<ref>Ross. p.114</ref>


==Books==
==Books==
*{{cite book|first=Suad|last=Amiry|authorlink=Suad Amiry|title=Space, Kinship and Gender: The Social Dimension of Peasant Architecture in Palestine|url=http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6987 |publisher=University of Edinburgh-Faculty of Social Sciences|year=1987}}
* [http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6987 Space, Kinship and Gender: The Social Dimension of Peasant Architecture in Palestine]. [[University of Edinburgh Press]] (1987)
* The Palestinian Village Home. British Museum Press. (1989) with Vera Tamari
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* [https://books.google.com/books?id=5FklUYjAQh0C Sharon and My Mother-in-Law : Ramallah Diaries]. ([[Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]])
* Traditional Floor Tiles in Palestine. Riwaq monograph. (2000)
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* Nothing to Lose but Your Life : An 18-Hour Journey with Murad. (Paperback; [[Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing]])
* Earthquake in April. [[Institute of Palestine Studies]]. (2003)
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* [https://books.google.com/books?id=5FklUYjAQh0C Sharon and My Mother-in-Law : Ramallah Diaries]. [[Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]] (2005)
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* Nothing to Lose but Your Life: An 18-Hour Journey with Murad. (Paperback) [[Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing]] (2010)
* Menopausal Palestine: Women at the Edge. Women Unlimited. (2010)
* Golda Slept Here. [[Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press]]. (2014)
* My Damascus. Olive Branch Press. (2021 - Italian edition 2017)
* Mother of Strangers: A Novel. Pantheon Books. {{ISBN|9780593316566}} (2022 - Originally published as Storia di un abito inglese e di una mucca ebrea, by Mondadori Libri S.p.A., Milano, in 2020)

== Awards ==

* NPR Books We Love for "Mother of Strangers: A Novel" (2022).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Books We Love |url=https://apps.npr.org/best-books/ |access-date=2023-03-27 |website=NPR |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Revitalization of Birzeit Historic Centre with RIWAQ (2013).<ref>{{Cite web |last=designboom |first=andrea chin I. |date=2013-09-10 |title=aga khan award for architecture 2013 winners |url=https://www.designboom.com/architecture/aga-khan-award-for-architecture-2013-winners/ |access-date=2023-03-27 |website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine |language=en}}</ref>


==References==
==Public Relations==
{{reflist}}
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* Radio Interview - [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_02_thu_01.shtml Recording from [[BBC Radio 4]]'s [[Woman's Hour]]]
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* Visit to the Palestine Center (Washington DC) for a talk and book signing. Read the transcript online at http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/14118 or watch the video of her talk at https://web.archive.org/web/20100714185625/http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/14105/pid/3584


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.riwaq.org/ Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation]
*[http://www.riwaq.org/ Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation]
*[http://www.birzeit.edu/ Birzeit University]
*[http://www.birzeit.edu/ Birzeit University]
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* Radio Interview - [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_02_thu_01.shtml Recording] from [[BBC Radio 4]]'s [[Woman's Hour]]
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* Visit to the Palestine Center (Washington DC) for a talk and book signing. Read the [http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/14118 transcript online] or [https://web.archive.org/web/20100714185625/http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/14105/pid/3584 watch the video of her talk]


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Revision as of 19:11, 19 April 2024

Suad Amiry
Born1951 (age 72–73)
West Bank, Ramallah
NationalityPalestinian
OccupationArchitect

Suad Amiry (Template:Lang-ar) (born 1951) is a Palestinian author and architect living in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Education

Her parents went from Palestine to Amman, Jordan. She was brought up there and went to Lebanon's capital of Beirut to study architecture. She studied architecture at the American University of Beirut, the University of Michigan, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Personal life

When she returned to Ramallah as a tourist in 1981, she met Salim Tamari, whom she married later, and stayed.

Career

Her book Sharon and My Mother-in-Law has been translated into 19 languages, the last one in Arabic, which was a bestseller in France, and was awarded in 2004 the prestigious Viareggio Prize in Italy together with Italo-Israeli Manuela Dviri, a journalist, playwright, and writer whose son was killed by a Hezbollah rocket during a confrontation while he was serving in the Israeli Army.

From 1991 to 1993 Amiry was a member of a Palestinian peace delegation in Washington, D.C. She is engaged in some major peace initiatives of Palestinian and Israeli women, including serving as Palestinian team coordinator for the Jerusalem program at the Smithsonian Institution's 1993 Folklife Festival.[1]

From 1994 to 1996 she was the Assistant Deputy Minister and Director General of the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Culture.[2]

She is Director and founder of the Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation, the center was founded in 1991; the first of its kind to work on the rehabilitation and protection of architectural heritage in Palestine.

Amiry was a member of staff at Birzeit University until 1991,[3] since then she has worked for Riwaq where she is the director.[4] She was appointed as a vice-chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University [3] in 2006.

Riwaq

One of Riwaq's first projects was the compilation of a registry of buildings of significant historical value in Palestine. Completed in 2004, it listed 50,000 buildings, around half of which were abandoned. In 2001 Riwaq launched a ten year program of job creation through conservation (tashgheel). Workers were trained in the use of traditional materials and techniques. In 2005 they launched the 50 villages project restoring public spaces and involving villagers in renovating their own properties.[5] Riwaq has also done important work on the so-called "throne villages" (qura al-karasi), the centres of Ottoman tax districts.[6]

Books

  • Space, Kinship and Gender: The Social Dimension of Peasant Architecture in Palestine. University of Edinburgh Press (1987)
  • The Palestinian Village Home. British Museum Press. (1989) with Vera Tamari
  • Traditional Floor Tiles in Palestine. Riwaq monograph. (2000)
  • Earthquake in April. Institute of Palestine Studies. (2003)
  • Sharon and My Mother-in-Law : Ramallah Diaries. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (2005)
  • Nothing to Lose but Your Life: An 18-Hour Journey with Murad. (Paperback) Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (2010)
  • Menopausal Palestine: Women at the Edge. Women Unlimited. (2010)
  • Golda Slept Here. Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press. (2014)
  • My Damascus. Olive Branch Press. (2021 - Italian edition 2017)
  • Mother of Strangers: A Novel. Pantheon Books. ISBN 9780593316566 (2022 - Originally published as Storia di un abito inglese e di una mucca ebrea, by Mondadori Libri S.p.A., Milano, in 2020)

Awards

  • NPR Books We Love for "Mother of Strangers: A Novel" (2022).[7]
  • Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Revitalization of Birzeit Historic Centre with RIWAQ (2013).[8]

References

  1. ^ Amiry, Suad; Johnson, Penny (1993). "Representing Jerusalem: An Interview with Suad Amiry". Middle East Report (182): 22–23. doi:10.2307/3013121. ISSN 0899-2851. JSTOR 3013121.
  2. ^ "Suad Amiry | Penguin Random House".
  3. ^ a b http://www.birzeit.edu/anouncements/news-d?news_id=189332 [permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "About Riwaq". 10 December 2006. Archived from the original on 10 December 2006.
  5. ^ Ross, Andrew (2019) Stone Men. The Palestinians Who Built Israel. Verso. ISBN 978-1-78873-026-6 p.103
  6. ^ Ross. p.114
  7. ^ "Books We Love". NPR. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  8. ^ designboom, andrea chin I. (10 September 2013). "aga khan award for architecture 2013 winners". designboom | architecture & design magazine. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
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