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Source: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/21/1005341/jewish-woman-wins-arab-poetry-prize
Jewish Woman Wins Arab Poetry Prize
[JTA] Toby Axelrod - Tuvit Shlomi, 28, who works at the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel in The Hague, won the El Hizjra Prize, a poetry award designed to promote the culture of Arab immigrants to Holland. Shlomi submitted her poems using the pseudonym Wallada bint al-Mustaqfi, who was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and feminist.