Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud (Arabic: سهير أبو عقصة داود) is a Palestinian writer, poet and professor.
[1][2][3][4] Daoud was born in the Melkite Greek Catholic village of Mi'ilya in Israel's Western Galilee area.
[3] After this, she began work in the United States, where she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.
[3][1][5] Daoud was commissioned by the Washington, D.C. Shakespeare Theatre Company to write original poetry for their March 2005 performance of The Tempest.
[7][6] In 2009, her book Palestinian Women and Politics and Israel, considered by Ghada Talhami as a 'pioneering' study in its field,[8] was published by the University of Florida Press.