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Ahmad Abdullah Ahmad Abu Salim was born in the Zarqa refugee camp near the city of Zarqa in Jordan on December 14, 1965, to a Palestinian refugee family originally from the depopulated village of Ajjour in the Hebron district. He is married and has one son and four daughters. He completed his primary education at the UNRWA school in the Zarqa camp and his secondary education at the Muawiya Bin Abi Sufyan School in Zarqa, graduating in the science stream in 1983. He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow in 1992. He worked in engineering in Dubai between 1997 and 2001 and at the Haifa Steel Engineering Office in Amman.
Abu Salim became involved in national activities in his youth, joining the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the early 1980s and becoming active within its ranks in Lebanon in 1985. He began creative writing in 1992, writing short stories, novels, and poetry. He participated in the Prince of Poets program in 2008, earning the title of "Poet of the Cause." He also participated in several other poetry festivals in Arab capitals, and his poems were published in Jordanian and Arab newspapers. Some of his poems were translated into English and published in Western magazines. He founded the "More Than Reading" cultural club in Amman and joined several official and non-governmental cultural institutions, including the Jordanian Writers Association, the General Union of Arab Writers, and the Arab Internet Writers Union.
Abu Salim was committed in his poems, stories, and novels to Palestine and its just cause. He had clear positions in support of the Palestinian resistance and the right of the Palestinian people to freedom and independence. He was bold in resisting normalization, as he withdrew his novel from the competition for the Arabic Booker Prize in the UAE in 2020 in protest against normalization. He also remained Arab in his intellectual affiliation and political positions.
He has published several poetry collections, including: Strange Blood (2005), Memoirs of a Knight in the Time of Fall (2006), Album on the Remains of Sodom (2008), I Found a Home (2010), The Wind Is Not Enough for the Lonely (2010), Sense Zero (2011), Against Your Heart (2017), and Their Blood Is Rain (translated into English). He has also written several novels, including: Semen Wolves (2016), Quantum (2018), Promethana (2020), Yes (2021), Azawad (2023), and Papas (2024). His studies include: Naji al-Ali – A Pulse That Still Lives Within Us (co-authored, 2013) and The Canaanite (co-authored, 2015).
Abu Salim played the guitar, and a number of artists sang his poems.
Abu Salim has won several awards, including: the Naji Naaman Literary Award (2008), the Poet of the Palestinian Cause - Prince of Poets Program (2008), the Ghassan Kanafani Award for Creativity (2015), the Jamal Hamdan Award for Fiction (2018), the Jerusalem Award (2021), and the Palestine International Award for Literature in the field of Fiction (2024).
Abu Salim was a frequent guest on some Arab satellite channels, commenting on current events, particularly developments in the Palestinian issue. He contracted cancer and died on June 21, 2025.
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