- Born
- Died
- Salma Khadra Jayyusi was born on April 16, 1925 in As-Salt, Jordan. Salma Khadra died on April 20, 2023 in Amman, Jordan.
- Jayyusi studied high school at the German Schmidt College in Jerusalem, then studied Arabic and English literature at the American University of Beirut. After her studies, she returned to Jerusalem and taught at Dar Al Moalemat College.
- In the early sixties, the family settled in Beirut, where Jayyusi participated in an ongoing debate between two opposing groups of literary figures, each represented by a literary magazine, Al Adab and Shi'r. She contributed to both magazines and emerged as an original poet, notable critic, and skillful translator.
- Growing up, Jayyusi attended the Ma'muniyya School in Jerusalem and the Government School in Acre, followed by Schmidt College for Girls in Jerusalem for her high school education.
- Jayyusi began her literary career in the 1950s and published her first collection of poetry, Returning from the Dreamy Fountain, in 1960.
- Jayyusi grew up in Acre and the Baqa'a neighborhood of West Jerusalem. Following the Nakba of 1948, she moved to Jordan.
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