Background
Born in Scotland, Dabbagh is the daughter of a Palestinian father from Jaffa and an English mother.
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Selma Dabbagh
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Now a full-time writer of fiction, she has spent lengthy periods in Kuwait, France, Egypt and Bahrain, with almost annual visits to Palestine. Before concentrating on writing, she worked as a human rights lawyer in London with frequent visits to the West Bank and Cairo. Since 2004, she has written short stories which have appeared in New Writing 15 and Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women.
She has twice been a finalist in the Fish Short Story Prize for Beirut-Paris-Beirut (2005) and Aubergine (2004).
In 2014, her radio play The Brick was broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
