Laila El-Haddad (Arabic: ليلى الحداد) is a Palestinian author and public speaker based in the United States.
El-Haddad was born in Kuwait and raised primarily in Saudi Arabia, where her parents worked, and she spent her summers in Gaza.
[1] She traveled to the United States to attend Duke University, and then went on to receive her MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she was awarded the Clinton Scholarship for Palestinian graduate students.
[citation needed] In 2010, she compiled choice blog entries and other writing into a book, Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between.
[3] She has been published in The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique, and Saveur, and she has been a guest on al Jazeera, NPR stations, CNN, and the BBC.