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Hala Ayan



US Palestinian novelist Hala Alyan talks poetry and personal history ahead of Emirates LitFest appearance

  • Hala Alyan is the author of 'Salt Houses,' winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award
  • Ayan lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she is a clinical psychologist and a professor at New York University
By Rawaa Talass ·

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