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- Country of residence: Palestine
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The poet Ali Youssef Fouda was born on April 1, 1946 in the village of Qanir, Haifa district.
Following the Nakba of 1948, he took refuge with his family in Tulkarm, where he completed secondary school.
He moved to Amman to complete his education at the Teachers Institute and graduated in 1966.
He then worked as a teacher in Amman schools until 1976, when he left for Baghdad for a short period, then to Beirut to join the ranks of the Palestinian resistance alongside a large number of intellectuals and creatives who saw their salvation linked to the resistance and its institutions.
Ali Fouda, along with a group of his friends, published “Raseef 1981” magazine to represent the culture of marginality and difference away from the establishment. A few issues were published before he disagreed with his “Rusaifeen” friends and continued to publish it in the form of an individual, independent newspaper.
During the siege of Beirut, he was injured by shrapnel and taken to the hospital. News of his death was broadcast and his friends wrote their eulogies and farewells, but the poet temporarily woke up from death and read the newspapers, and saw how much others loved him, even those he rejected and disagreed with. Then he returned two days later to his final death on August 20, 1982. .
Elias Khoury used the story of Ali Fouda’s death in his novel Bab al-Shams because of the difference in this death and its indication of the unique Palestinian conditions, even in their martyrdom and absence.
Ali Fouda published five collections of poetry: “A Palestinian Like the Edge of a Sword” 1969, “Poems from a Woman’s Eyes” 1973, “The Howling of the Wolf” 1977, “The Gypsy” 1981, “Secret Publications of the Grass” 1982. He also published the novel “The Good Palestinian” 1979, and his After his martyrdom, he wrote another novel, “The Sticks of the Gallows” 1983.
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