Lilas Taha
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Lilas Taha is a writer at heart, an electrical engineer by training and an advocate for domestic abuse victims by choice. She was born in Kuwait to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father, and immigrated to the US following the Gulf War. Lilas' first book, Bitter Almonds, won the International Book Awards 2017 in the category of Fiction-Multicultural.