Asmaa is a poet, performer, and journalist based in Haifa. She was born in 1985 in the village of Daburieh, in the Lower Galilee, Palestine.

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In 2010 Asmaa received the 

Debutant Writer Award from Al Qattan Foundation, for her volume of poetry, Liwa, published in 2011 with Dar Al Ahliya, Jordan.

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Asmaa has recently published a memoir A Year of Small Museums, and four poetry collections. Don't Believe Me If I Talked To You Of War was published in 2019 in Arabic, Dutch, and Swedish.

 

Her poetry has been translated to English, German, Spanish, Farsi, Swedish, Italian, Greek, among others. 

 

Asmaa became the first Director of the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah in 2012.

 

For several years, Asmaa worked as a journalist and editor of Arabic newspapers, as well as a presenter for Television and Radio.