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Ghada Karmi (Arabic: غادة كرمي‎, transliteration: Ghādah Karmi) (1939- ) is a Palestinian doctor of medicine, author and academic. She writes frequently on Palestinian issues in newspapers and magazines, like The Guardian, The Nation and Journal of Palestine Studies.

Karmi was born in the Jerusalem and she grew up in neighbourhood of Katamon. In her 2002 autobiography In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story she describes growing up in Katamon, with its mixture of Christian and Muslim Palestinians. Among the family friends and neighbors was Khalil al-Sakakini and his family. With her family she was forced to flee in the 1948 Nakba. The family came eventually to London, where her father worked for the BBC Arabic service.

She studied and became a doctor of medicine, graduating from the University of Bristol.[1] Since 1972 she has been politically active for the Palestinian cause.

She is an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and a visiting professor at London Metropolitan University.

• Al-Hassan, Ahmad Y.; Ghada Karmi & Nizar Namnum (eds.) Proceedings of the First International Symposium for the History of Arabic Science April 5-12, 1976. Volume II. Papers in European Languages. Aleppo: University of Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, 1978.
• Karmi, Ghada: Multicultural Health Care: Current Practice and Future Policy in Medical Education ISBN 0-7279-0940-1 British Medical Association, London, 1995,
• Karmi, Ghada (Ed.) with a contribution by Edward Said: Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process? ISBN 0-86372-226-1 Ithaca Press., 1996
  • • Review of Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process?, by Andrej Kreutz, in Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Fall, 1999.
• Karmi, Ghada: The Palestinian Exodus 1948-1998. Ithaca Press 1999,
• Karmi, Ghada: In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story ISBN 1-85984-694-7 Verso 2002
  • A country of the mind Guardian, Saturday October 19, 2002 (from Dr Ghada Karmi's memoir, In Search of Fatima)
  • In Search of Fatima Fateful Days in 1948 from Jerusalem Quarterly (from Dr Ghada Karmi's memoir, In Search of Fatima)
    • Review of In Search of Fatima, the Guardian
    • Review of In Search of Fatima by Sara Powell Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 2004, page 68

• Karmi, Ghada: "The 1948 Exodus: A Family Story" in Journal of Palestine Studies 23, no. 2 (Win. 1994): 31-40.
• Karmi, Ghada: U.S. Embassy Move to Jerusalem Is Misguided and Illegal January/February 1997, p. 14 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
• Karmi, Ghada: "After the Nakba: An Experience of Exile in England" in Journal of Palestine Studies 28, no. 3 (Spr. 1999): 52-63.
• Karmi, Ghada: Kosovars and Palestinians, The Nation, May 20, 1999 (June 7, 1999 issue)
• Karmi, Ghada: The future of peace: A Palestinian view 31 October, 2000, BBC
• Karmi, Ghada: A Secular Democratic State in Historic Palestine: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Al-Adab (Lebanon), July 2002
• Karmi, Ghada: The map must show a way home, The Guardian, Friday June 6 2003
• Karmi, Ghada: Zionism is Still the Issue, Dissident Voice, February 2, 2004
• Karmi, Ghada: By any means necessary, The Guardian, Thursday March 18 2004
• Karmi, Ghada: With no Palestinian state in sight, aid becomes an adjunct to occupation, The Guardian, Thursday, January 5, 2006
• Karmi, Ghada: Where is the global outcry at this continuing cruelty?, The Guardian, Monday May 15, 2006
• Karmi, Ghada: These shameful events have humiliated the Arab world The Guardian, January 2, 2007