Izzat Ghazzawi (1951 - April 4, 2003) was a Palestinian writer.

Will Youmans (born February 9, 1978) is a Palestinian American writer and activist.

She is considered one of the most prominent Palestinian writers.

Another was Abbas Cheblak, a 47-year-old Palestinian writer who has lived in London for 16 years and has a wife and two young children.

"But the shabab, the street, said no, and the outside leadership had to back down," a Palestinian writer said.

In 2004 Shami was recognized by the Palestinian Academic Society as one of the important Palestinian writers.

His fellow Palestinian writers in 1986 gave him the honorary title of "dean of Palestinian literature."

"The Palestinian leadership," said a Palestinian writer in the West Bank, "do not regard the peace movement as a potential interlocutor."

A poem by a leading Palestinian writer has set off a furor in Israel, touching on a primal fear shared by almost all Israelis.

One of those freed last week was Abbas Cheblak, a Palestinian writer and academic who has lived in Britain since 1975.