Dalia Taha

Dalia Taha is a Palestinian poet,playwright and novelist. She was born in Berlin in 1986 and grew up in Ramallah, Palestine, where she lives.

Her first play Keffiyeh/Made in China was produced by the Flemish Royal Theatre and A. M. Qattan Foundation and premiered in Brussels before touring seven Palestinian cities across the West Bank. The play was given a staged reading in July 2013 at the Mosaic Rooms in London, as part of the Shubbak Festival, in association with the Royal Court.

Her play Al’ab Nariya/Fireworks was developed under the Royal Court’s International Playwriting residency and was produced there in 2015.

Her other produced plays include There Is No One Between You and Me (Brown University, 2016), Hunger: a Musical (A. M. Qattan Foundation and Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy, Palestine, 2018) and Graduation (Berlin, 2020).

Dalia Holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University and has published three collections of poetry, that include The Biography of the People of the City of R, and a novel 'Arrafu l-Sawad' (The Black Fortune Teller) that was published in 2007.

Six poems were published in Banipal 45 – Writers from Palestine (Winter 2012), translated from the Arabic by Allison Blecker. One poem, War, can only be read online, here. 

In January 2024, in the midst of the ongoing war in Gaza/Israel/Palestine, Dalia Taha became the 2024 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow at St Aidan’s College of the University of Durham. She worked on poems that will make up a new poetry collection, and gave two lectures. The public and live-streamed lecture at the end of her Fellowship was entitled "Writing the Truth", and was given in English, accompanied by a reading of one of her poems, translated into English especially for the occasion. 

• The digital edition of Banipal 45 is available for free until 31 December 2023 at this link:  https://bit.ly/3R2GzGq

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Banipal 45 - Writers from Palestine (2012)

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