Claim: Selma Dabbagh never had any experience in writing short stories, thus she worked as a human rights lawyer in London with frequent visits to the West Bank and Cairo.
Evidence: Selma Dabbagh (born 1970) is a British-Palestinian writer who gained fame in 2011 with Out of It, an acclaimed novel centered on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which was nominated as a Guardian Book of the Year in 2011 and 2012 Since 2004, she has written short stories which have appeared in New Writing 15 and Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women. She has twice been a finalist in the Fish Short Story Prize for Beirut-Paris-Beirut (2005) and Aubergine (2004).