Something in My Hand

Haifa Sawarkeh is a Palestinian writer with a degree in Comparative Literature.
She participated in many writing workshops as a researcher and later as a writer of children literature.
While researching children literature she found herself inspired to write stories for early childhood.
Her first published book is “ There is Something in My Hand” which to her delight and surprise was shortlisted for the prestigious Itisalat Award for Children Literature.

About the Illustrator

Born and raised in a family that appreciated art, Maya was lucky to have had the support of her family to pursue art from an early age. She studied painting and sculpting at the Lebanese University -Faculty of Arts- while working at the same time for ad agencies and magazines executing murals and storyboards. Maya illustrated her first book in 2004 and has been a children’s book illustrator ever since then. She has illustrated over 35 books and worked with many publishing houses in Lebanon and the Arab region.