About Ghada Karmi

Ghada Karmi’s new book, Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine, explores the Israel/Palestine conflict; in particular Israel’s dilemma and the One-State solution.

Following the success of In Search of Fatima, a poignant and haunting autobiographical tale of her exile from Palestine, Married to Another Man looks at practical ways forward for those concerned about the ongoing plight of Palestine/Israel. Published July 2007 (Pluto Press).

She will be promoting the new book on tour in the US during April 2008. Before that she will be speaking at a number of venues in Britain, Holland and Egypt. Watch this space for details.

March 8 – International Women’s Day event. Netherlands Palestine Committee, Utrecht, Holland

March 30, 7 pm – Book event. Al-Diwan Bookstore, Cairo

April 10, 4 pm – Harvard University, Boston

April 14 – 6 pm University of Wisconsin

April 16 – Georgetown University, Washington DC

April 20 – Princeton university, New Jersey.

May 19 – UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem and left Palestine for England in 1949. She practised as a doctor for many years working as as specialist in the health of migrants and refugees. She held a number of research appointments on Middle Eastern politics and culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the Universities of Durham and Leeds.

From 1999 to 2001 she was an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where she led a major project on Israel-Palestinian reconciliation.

Currently Ghada Karmi is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.