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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Ahmad Abd al-Majid Khalil
al-Kawamleh (1952) is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet and playwright. He was born
in Al-Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron. He obtained a teacher's institute
diploma, and worked in UNRWA schools in Jordan. He published his literature in
Jordanian and Arab newspapers and magazines, and he has many collections of
poetry and plays for children. He won several awards.
his biography
Ahmed Abdel-Majid Khalil Al-Kawamleh
was born in Al-Aroub camp in Hebron in 1952. He studied high school at Halhul
School in 1972, and obtained a diploma in education from the Teachers’Institute of Literature in Amman in 1974, then a bachelor’s degree in education
from the College of Educational Sciences of the United Nations Agency. Relief
and Employment for Palestinian Refugees in 1998.
He worked as a teacher in UNRWA
schools in Hittin camp in Rusaifa from 1974 until 2001, then moved to work in
the Ministry of Education in 2002 and worked as an educational supervisor at
Hittin Kindergarten, formerly the Children’s Friends Association, until 2017.
He is a member of the Jordanian
Writers Association, the Friends of Children Association, and president of the
Cultural Pioneers Club for two sessions. He worked as a secretary and a member
of the administrative board of the Jordanian Writers Association in the Zarqa
branch.
His writings
Among his poetry collections:
Songs of Love and Anger, 1986
The Rise of the Flesh, 1991
Memory of the Clove, 1997
Moons of the homeland, flowers for
childhood, poetry for children, 2015
Jehovah's Psalms, 2015
From his plays:
Young sellers
chapters
The Lion and the Three Bulls, a
children's play, 1994.
Thaloub's Wit, a children's play of
poetry, 2000.
Arnob and the sage of nature
Young sellers
from his books:
A panorama of plastic art in Jordan,
jointly with Muhammad Abu Zureik, 1990.
The unpublished poetic works of the
poet Abdel-Fattah Al-Kawamleh, jointly with Ziyad Abu Laban, 1997.
Children's songs, the second Children's
Song Festival, 1995.
Children's Songs, Fourth Children's
Song Festival, 1998.
Poetic Spaces, 2000.
The Amazing Pen and Other Stories, a
collection of short stories, 2015.
Achievements and Awards
his prizes
1986: Queen Noor Award for
Children's Literature, Poetry Field, from the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation for
his collection of songs for children.
1995: Children's Song Award from the
Ministry of Culture for two children's songs composed by him: Qamar for
Children, composed by Samer Ghosheh, and The Human Driver.
1989: Award for the song Let's Sing
the Glory of the Homelands, composed by Samer Ghosheh.
1997: Award for the best children's
song in the Jordanian TV poll.
2015: Khalil Sakakini Award for
Children's Literature from the Jordanian Writers Association.
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