Sanabel Abdel Rahman

Sanabel Abdel Rahman is a Palestinian writer, researcher, and curator currently based in Amman, Jordan. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Phillips Marburg-Universität, Germany. Her work engages folk tales, magical realism, Indigenous climate fiction, and speculative writing, which she expands on through a variety of public-facing initiatives. Across her academic, pedagogical, and creative practices, she explores liberatory imaginations, reconnection with the land, anti-colonial writing, and the activation of alternative realities.

She is the author of the book Magical Realism in Palestinian Literature and Folk Tales: Reading the Distorted Spaces of the Nakba (forthcoming, 2027) and Māʼ Ward (2026). She is the co-founder of Ayn Hawd, an initiative for interdisciplinary learning and artistic research.