Suad Amiry

(1951) is a Palestinian anrchitect and founder and director of the Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation in Ramallah. Raised in Amman, Damascus, Beirut and Cairo, she studied architecture at the American University of Beirut and at the University of Michigan, specializing in Edinburgh. She has taught Architecture at Birzeit University since 1981 , living in Ramallah since then. She has written and edited a number of books on the different aspects of Palestinian design. She won the international Viareggio Versilia prize in 2004. Her books Sharon e mia suocera (2003), Se questa è vita (2005), Niente sesso in città (2007), Murad Murad (2009), Golda ha dormito qui (2013) and Damasco (2016) are published in Italy by Feltrinelli.