Raymonda Hawa Tawil (Arabic: ريموندا حوا الطويل, born Raymonda Hawa in 1940 in Acre in Mandatory Palestine) is a Palestinian writer and journalist. She is the mother of Suha Arafat. Life. Raymonda Tawil is a poet, writer and Palestinian journalist born in Acre in a prominent family of Palestinian Christians. She spent part of childhood as a boarder with French Catholic sisters. Her public life began with an intellectual show that was held in Nablus, northern West Bank. Independent-spirited columns earned her the nickname "The Lioness of Nablus".
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