N.S. Nuseibeh
Nuzha Nuseibeh, also known as N.S. Nuseibeh, is a Palestinian and British writer and academic. Her debut essay collection Namesake won the 2025 Jhalak Prize.
Early life
Nuseibeh was born in East Jerusalem. Her grandmother was from Ramle. Nuseibeh graduated with a Scottish Master of Arts in English literature and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 2014. She completed a PhD at St Hilda's College, Oxford in 2022.Career
Nuseibeh began her writing career contributing to Bustle and The Atlantic. Nuseibeh's short story "Love-life" was shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.Via a five-way auction in 2020, Canongate Books acquired the rights to publish Nuseibeh's debut non-fiction essay collection, then titled She Carries My Name and originally set for a spring 2022 release date. Ahead of its release, Nuseibeh received 1st Prize at the 2022 Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction. The book, renamed Namesake, was published in February 2024. Namesake won the 2025 Jhalak Prize in the prose category.
Personal life
Nuseibeh is agnostic culturally Palestinian Muslim, and a feminist.Collections
- ''Namesake: Reflections on a warrior woman''
Short stories
- "Love-life"