Suad Amiry (Arabic: سعاد العامري) (born 1951) is a Palestinian author and architect living in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Her book Sharon and My Mother-in-Law has been translated into 19 languages, the last one in Arabic, which was a bestseller in France, and was awarded in 2004 the prestigious Viareggio Prize in Italy together with Italo-Israeli Manuela Dviri, a journalist, playwright, and writer whose son was killed by a Hezbollah rocket during a confrontation while he was serving in the Israeli Army.
[1] From 1994 to 1996 she was the Assistant Deputy Minister and Director General of the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Culture.
In 2001 Riwaq launched a ten year program of job creation through conservation (tashgheel).
[5] Riwaq has also done important work on the so-called "throne villages" (qura al-karasi), the centres of Ottoman tax districts.