Ada Aharoni is an Israeli poet, writer and professor. She was born in Cairo and lives in Haifa, and is also President of IFLAC: PAVE PEACE, the International Forum for Literature and Culture of Peace. She writes in Hebrew and English, and her works have been translated into Arabic. Ada Aharoni sent a letter and the poem "From Haifa to Near Faraway Cairo to President Sadat in 1977. This poem prompted Sadat to say, in his November 1977 address to the Israeli parlaiment (Knesset): "Let us make the poem a reality." | |