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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Born in Haifa; worked as a teacher; active in literary circles in Haifa; founded Zahrat Al-Jamil (the Flower of the Beautiful) magazine, which became a literary newspaper known as Az-Zahra (1922) then Az-Zuhour (Flowers) (1927); author of stories, novels and plays, incl. The Palace Prisoner (Arabic, 1922) and his successful novel The Killer of his Brother (a tragedy in three parts, published in 1919 and performed as a theater play after Jan. 1929 in Syria, Palestine, and other Arab countries); translated detective stories into Arabic; died in an accident in Haifa in 1930 (some sources say he was killed after a dispute).
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