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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Nasser Abu Srour was born in Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem Governorate on November 16, 1969, to a refugee family originally from the depopulated village of Beit Nattif in the Hebron district. He completed his primary education at the UNRWA-run Aida camp school and his secondary education in Bethlehem schools. He enrolled at Al-Quds University/Abu Dis to study English literature and managed to complete his studies while imprisoned by the occupation, earning a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in the same field from the same university.
He published a poetry collection entitled Prison and Other Things (2021), and a novel entitled The Story of a Wall (2022), which was nominated by Dar Al-Adab for the Booker Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Abu Srour joined the Fatah movement and participated in its national activities. He helped plan and execute field operations against the occupation army and settlers during the First Intifada. He was active in Fatah's student wing at Al-Quds University, where he founded a military cell with his cousins, Maher Abu Srour and Mahmoud Abu Srour. He participated in the killing of an Israeli officer. Since his arrest, he has been involved in the struggles of the Palestinian prisoners' movement against the Israeli Prison Service. He refused to complete his studies in prison by enrolling at Tel Aviv Open University, insisting instead on studying at a Palestinian university. He became a leading figure among the prisoners from the Bethlehem Governorate, along with his cousin, the imprisoned Mahmoud Abu Srour.
Abu Srour suffered throughout his life. He was arrested by the occupation forces on January 4, 1993, and subjected to harsh interrogation at the Hebron prison interrogation center. The occupation courts sentenced him to life imprisonment. His imprisonment prevented him from completing his university studies in English literature at Al-Quds University. The occupation prevented his mother from visiting him for seven years, and her grief over him led to her losing her sight. His father died in 1997. The occupation refused to release him in the Oslo Accords releases, in the Wafa al-Ahrar deal in 2011, and in the fourth batch in which twenty-five prisoners detained before the signing of the Oslo Accords were expected to be released, as part of the occupation government’s agreement with the Palestinian Authority in 2014.
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