Sector : Cultural Figures , Poets

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• Country of residence: France

• Gender: Female

• Born in: 1940

• Age: 76

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May Sayigh was born in 1940 in Gaza; obtained a BA in sociology from Cairo University. She was the president of the Union of Palestinian Women and has been very active in the cause of Palestinian women. 
She lives in Paris.


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She has published a number of poetry collections, as well as a prose account of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon in "The Siege"

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