Dalal Khalifa

{{short description|Qatari novelist and playwright}}

Dalal Khalifa (دلال خليفة) is a Qatari novelist and playwright.

Along with her sister, Shu'a', Khalifa was one of the first writers in Qatar to publish novels.{{cite book|author=Wa?l S. Hassan|title=The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXAuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA710|date=1 August 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-934980-7|pages=710–}} She has also written plays, publishing three together in one volume, Insan fi hayz al-wujud (A Person in the Sphere of Existence), in 1995. A native of Doha, she received her bachelor's degree in English from Qatar University and also possesses a master's degree in translation from Heriot-Watt University. At one time head of the Foreign Publications Unit, she also led the women's cultural forum Marasina.{{cite book|author1=Radwa Ashour|author2=Ferial Ghazoul|author3=Hasna Reda-Mekdashi|title=Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN-OBAAAQBAJ|date=1 November 2008|publisher=American University in Cairo Press|isbn=978-1-61797-554-7}}