Souad Shehab

Souad Shehab is a Palestinian writer who was born in a tent in a refugee camp in southwest Syria. She spent twenty-four years in the camp, where she experienced firsthand the difficulties of refugee life. Trained as a teacher, shetaught in Syrian primary schools for twenty-five years and raised four of her own boys. She became a refugee a second time when civil war broke out in Syria, escaping to Lebanon and then arriving in Canada in 2017. She currently lives in Edmonton with her family, where she teaches preschool and is working toward her dream of establishing herself as a writer in her new home.