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Ada Aharoni (b. Andrée Yadid, 1933) is an Egyptian-born Israeli poet, writer, lecturer and peace researcher. Since her first poetry book, ''Poems from Israel'', was launched in 1972 she has published more than 20 books, including peace poetry, historical novels and biographies. The uprooting of the Jews from Egypt, including herself, following the establishment of Israel in 1948 is the main topic in many of her novels. Her research on this "Second Exodus" has been a major focus in her career. One of her most published peace poems is ''A Bridge of Peace'', a message from an Israeli to a Palestinian woman. The novel ''Not In Vain: An Extraordinary Life''〔Bara, Judith: ( ''Review of Not in Vain: An Extraordinary Life'' )〕 tells the story of Thea Wolf, the German Head Nurse at the Jewish Hospital in Alexandria during World War II, who together with her colleagues and aided by Egyptian officials helped save European Jews. Aharoni was awarded the Prix du Témoignage〔Le Huffington Post: ( ''La cérémonie du Prix du Témoignage'' )〕 for the French translation of this novel, called ''Thea Wolf – la femme en blanc de l'hôpital d’Alexandrie''. Aharoni is the Founder and World President of IFLAC: The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace. ==Biography== Aharoni was born in Cairo, in a Jewish family of French nationality. She attended the Alvernia English School for Girls, a convent school in the neighborhood of Zamalek, where she was taught English literature by Irish Franciscan nuns. "At the age of 10 I was going to be a writer,"〔Blumfield, Wendy: ( ''Arrivals: From Cairo to Haifa, 1949'' ), The Jerusalem Post, 11/29/2007〕 she stated during an interview with The Jerusalem Post. In 1949, her father, an export-import merchant, had his work permit revoked, and the Egyptian authorities confiscated the money he had transferred to a Swiss bank. The family moved to France, and Aharoni moved to Israel soon after, at the age of 16. Aharoni received her BA in history, sociology and English literature from the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1964, she received her M. Phil. Degree on the literature of Henry Fielding from the University of London (Birkbeck College) and was awarded her Ph.D. on Saul Bellow's Introspective Fiction at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1975. Aharoni has taught literature at the University of Haifa and sociology and conflict resolution at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa. She has been a guest lecturer and visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Founder and World President of IFLAC: The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace, as well as the President of the Second World Congress of the Jews from Egypt (WCJE), held in 2006. In 2012, she was awarded the Israeli President's Award for Volunteerism,〔Cashman, Greer Fay: ( ''Everest hero gets special citation from president'' ), The Jerusalem Post, 09/05/2012〕 for promoting peace initiatives between Jews and Arabs. In 2015, she was elected Honorary Citizen of Haifa (Yakir Haifa). As the first woman, she was invited to speak in the Mahmood Mosque in Kababir, Haifa (2012). Aharoni was married to Haim Aharoni for 55 years until he died in 2006. He was a professor at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Technion. They had two children, Ariel and Talia. Talia died from breast cancer in 2011. Aharoni lives in Haifa, Israel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ada Aharoni」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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