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Ibtisam Barakat is a Palestinian-American bi-lingual author, poet, artist, translator, and educator. She was born in Beit Hanina, near Jerusalem. Barakat received her Bachelor's degree from Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah in the West Bank. In 1986, she moved to New York City, where she interned with The Nation magazine. She went on to earn two Masters degrees in Journalism and in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her childhood memoir, ''Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood,'' about growing up under Israeli occupation following the 1967 Six-Day War, was published in 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and won numerous awards and honors, including the International Reading Association's Best Non Fiction for YA, 2008,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=IRA Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards )〕 the Middle East Council Best Literature Book Award, 2007,〔(Middle East Council Book Award Winner page )〕 and the 2008 Arab American Book Award in the Children/ Young Adult Category.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2008 Book Award Winners )〕 Her book in Arabic, Al Ta' Al Marbouta Tateer, التاء المربوطة تطير THE LETTER TA ESCAPES, about a letter in the Arabic alphabet that refuses to do what it is supposed to do in a word, won the Anna Lindh Foundation award for Best Literature for Arabic children in 2011. Her book in Arabic, Hadeyyah Lel-Hamzah,هدية للهمزة A PRESENT FOR THE LETTER HAMZAH, which she wrote and illustrated, was published by The National Library of the United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi, 2014. ==References== * (Profile of Ibtisam Barakat at the Institute for Middle East Understanding ) * (An Interview with Ibtisam Barakat, ''Critical Mass'', 14 May 2007 ) * (Awards and honors won by Tasting the Sky by Ibtisam Barakat at Macmillan ) 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「Ibtisam Barakat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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