Selma Dabbagh

Selma Dabbagh s a British-Palestinian writer and lawyer. She holds an LLM from SOAS and a PhD from Goldsmiths University. She has worked for human rights organizations in Jerusalem, Cairo and London. Selma’s debut novel Out of It (Bloomsbury 2011) is set between Gaza, London and the Gulf. Her fiction includes short stories, radio plays as well as productions for stage and screen. She is the editor of We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers (Saqi 2021) and a judge for the 2025 EBRD Literature Prize. She blogs for the London Review of Books on Gaza.