Author: Selma Dabbagh

Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer of fiction. Born in Scotland, she has lived in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, France, Egypt and the West Bank. Her work includes the novel, ‘Out of It,’ (Bloomsbury, 2011) that was a Guardian Book of the Year. Her radio play ‘The Brick,’ produced by BBC Radio 4 in 2014, was nominated for an Imison Award and she and has won or been nominated for various short story awards. Selma is a judge for the Society of Authors McKitterick Award and her non-fiction has appeared in the Guardian, GQ, the LRB and other publications. She holds a PhD from the English and Comparative Literature Department of Goldsmiths University and has worked on a variety of scripts, for the theatre, film and TV, many of which involved research, particularly of Arab women’s histories. She has recently completed a novel set in Jerusalem in 1936. She tweets at @SelmaDabbagh.