Lamees Khalifah

Lamees Khalifah was born in Nablus, Palestine. After graduating from high school, she obtained a BA in geography from Beirut Arab University in 1972. She then moved to Dubai, got married, and had a son and two daughters. She worked in the field of education in the UAE schools for twenty-three years, and she also managed the Jordanian Social Club for ten years, during which she practiced her hobby in writing play scripts for children and adults, in addition to cultural, artistic and social activities.

Books of Lamees Khalifah

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  Diary of A Seventy-Year-Old Girl

  Lamees Khalifah

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  Here we were, here we played, and there we stayed awake, and that jasmine is under our window, and the glass veranda is still as we left it, carrying our memories be

  Here we were, here we played, and there we stayed awake, and that jasmine is under our window, and the glass veranda is still as we left it, carrying our memories between its walls, and its windows overlooking the city, repeating our songs and poems, hearing the echo of our laughter, our whispers, our conversations, and my mother’s stories that she never gets tired of, and the many poems she has memorized. The veranda also hears the anecdotes and jokes of Abu Nawas, Harun al-Rashid and his wife Zubaydah, Uncle Omar’s jokes and his boisterous laughter, Samia’s melodious voice reciting old stanzas and roles, and finally, hearing our collective voices singing Fairouz’s song harmoniously: Our folks returned bringing back the old nights. The old loved ones returned trying to control us, My God… It has been such a long time.

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