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Farouk Wadi

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Farouk Wadi, whose full name is Farouk Muhammad Ahmad Wadi (born on April 14, 1949 in Al-Bireh, Ramallah - died on September 19, 2022 in Lisbon), is a Palestinian writer, novelist, and critic.

his biography
Farouk Muhammad Ahmad Wadi was born in the Palestinian city of Al-Bireh on April 14, 1949, to a Palestinian family who had fled from the village of Al-Muzaira’a following the Nakba in 1948. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Jordan in 1972, and moved between several Arab cities, including Amman, Beirut, and Damascus. He worked for 35 years in Palestinian cultural institutions.

His writings
He has a number of books, namely:

Exile, my love, a collection of short stories, 1976.
A Way to the Sea, a novel, 1980.
Three Signs in the Palestinian Novel: Ghassan Kanafani, Emile Habibi, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 1985.
The Scent of Summer, 1993.
"Manasels of the Heart", 1997.
"Sunbird", 2006.
"Biography of the Shadow", 2008.
"Beirut's rooster calls the call to prayer at noon - The Book of War", 2015.
“The Bed of the Longing”, 2019.
“Soudad.. The Abyss of the Gazelle,”in 2022.
his death
Farouk Wadi passed away on Monday, September 19, 2022, in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, at the age of about 73, after a struggle with illness.

On September 19, 2022, the Palestinian Ministry of Culture mourned the writer Farouk Wadi, and the Palestinian Minister of Culture, Atef Abu Saif, said: “Palestinian and Arab culture is losing one of its most prominent symbols that enriched the cultural scene with its literary creations, and enriched the library with its cultural, critical and narrative visions, and that Wadi’s legacy will remain as firm as the mountains of our country.” lofty.”

On September 20, 2022, the Palestinian Ministry of Culture organized a stand of silence and mourning at the entrance to the “Twelfth Palestine International Book Fair” to mourn the passing of Farouk Wadi, and the Palestinian Minister of Culture, Atef Abu Seif, said during the stand: “Wadi left a great legacy for generations, as a critic, novelist, and creator. Exhibition The Palestine International Bookstore loses one of the most important figures of Palestinian culture whose books graced the shelves of this exhibition. This is a sad moment for our people, and it is a painful moment for us as intellectuals, writers, and workers in the cultural field, as we lost a compass pointing to Palestine, and to the role of the true intellectual, the committed vanguard, who belongs to his people and his cause. And the Palestine International Book Fair, in coordination with the publishers who published Wadi's works, will organize a symposium for signing in absentia for his novel (Sudad - The Abyss of the Gazelle), because the absent remains present among us. We must remain loyal to everyone who contributed to our Palestinian literature and our national cause.

And the Palestinian writer and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah wrote on September 19, 2022: “The pain of Farouk’s departure, this beloved who most celebrates life and all that is beautiful and free in it, Farouk, the great and noble creator who lived great and left great. He completes the heart and his torment to leave far from us, in Portugal At the time when we were organizing to celebrate his latest novel (Sudad - The Abyss of the Gazelle) after two days, the last news Farouk heard was the news that a number of Palestinian creators signed his latest novel on his behalf, at the Palestine International Book Fair, all thanks to them, your participation was The last beautiful news that Farouk heard and made his heart happy.

The Palestinian poet and novelist Ghassan Zaqtan said: “Today Farouk Wadi passed away... one of the most beautiful Palestinian writers and the closest to the heart. We were in the Mediterranean booth at the Palestine Book Fair, talking about him, his beautiful language, his loving spirit, and proposing to sign his new book, which he did not reach.

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