About Ada Aharoni
Professor Ada Aharoni is a Sociologist and a Peace Culture Researcher, writer, poet and lecturer. She writes in English, Hebrew and French, and has published twenty-six books to date that have been translated into several languages. She believes that multiculturalism, intercultural communication, peace literature and the media, can substantially help in healing the urgent ailments of our global village, such as war, conflict and famine, and promote equal status and opportunities for women and men. The themes of Multiculturalism, Peace, and Conflict Resolution, toward the sustainability of our fragile earth, are major ones in her creative and research works.

She studied at London University (England), where she received her M.Phil on English Literature, and at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), where she received her Ph.D. degree. She taught at Haifa University, and at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), in Haifa, as well as at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, USA. She is the Founder-President of IFLAC: The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (1999 - 2007). She has been awarded several international prizes and awards, including the British Council Award, and was elected one of the Hundred Global Heroines (Rochester, New York, 1998).

Ada Aharoni was born in Cairo, Egypt. Surrounded by strong women, she early took an interest in peace, and in women power for peace.