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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Ali Al-Khalili, (1943-2013), a prolific Palestinian writer, has been called the “dominant of Palestinian culture in the occupied territories since 1978 through his founding of the Palestinian Union of Writers and Writers. With its leftist name, he mixed in his poems and in his writings the patriotism, like most of the poets of Palestine in that era filled with hope, and his texts were full of vocabulary of siege, repression, occupation, exile, resistance, martyrs and prisons.... He recorded a shining presence in the history of Palestinian culture and in the Arab library, and his role became prominent Literary and cultural and his contributions to the creative fields in the fields of poetry, story and studies of the Palestinian popular heritage.
His upbringing and life
Ali Fathallah al-Khalili was born in the Yasmina neighborhood - the Kasbah neighborhood in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, in 1943, and opened his eyes to the plight of his people in 1948, and taught in its schools until high school, where he moved in 1962, to Beirut to complete his university education and obtained a license from the Faculty of Commerce in Beirut Arab University in 1966, and while studying in Beirut, he began to discover a literary and poetic world different from the prevalent in the West Bank and Jordan, which opened his eyes to experiences that were not completely known in his homeland, and his cultural awareness was formed at the intersection of the currents of Arab poetic modernization in the sixties and seventies of the last century. His political and cultural awareness also matured within the framework of the Palestinian resistance movement during the same period, which made his orientations and cultural choices lined up for poetic expression, as well as prose, which embraces the divergent, resistance, and modernist awareness that was part of the cultural situation in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
After his return, Ali Al-Khalili worked in the field of education, and then moved to work in Saudi Arabia until 1969 and then Libya, but he soon returned to Palestine in 1977 to work in the Jerusalemite newspaper Al-Fajr, and established “The Literary Dawn” and worked as its editor, then as editor-in-chief of the newspaper . He contributed to the establishment of the Palestinian Union of Writers and Writers and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
With the advent of the Palestinian National Authority, Ali Al-Khalili held the position of assistant undersecretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Culture until 2005, when he retired and devoted himself to writing and writing.
His writings
Ali Al-Khalili published about forty books on poetry, novels and research, and some of his works have been translated into English. Among them are twelve collections of poetry, thirteen books on criticism and heritage, and the first part of his autobiography, in which he boldly and transparently dealt with his upbringing in a struggling labor family, where he was born to a father who owned a bread oven not far from the house of the poet Fadwa Toukan, and two novels. He devoted a number of his research to serving the national culture.
Poetry
1- Topography from Memory: Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists - Beirut 1973
2- The dialectic of the homeland: Dar Al-Awda - Beirut 1974
3- Nablus goes to the sea: Dar Al-Awda - Beirut 1976
4- Composition for the Rose: Arab Book House - Tunisia / Libya 1977
5- Laughing from the stoning of Dammam: Dar Nasser - Jerusalem 1978
6 - Spread at the camp door: Dar Al-Carmel - Amman 1978
7- The dream is still a dangerous attempt: Ibn Rushd House - Jerusalem 1980
8- Alone and the garden crowded: Dar Al-Bayader - Jerusalem 1981
9- We, Maulana: Dar Al-Aswar - Acre 1984
10- Glory be to you, Glory be to me from your flooded mud: Palestinian Writers Union - Jerusalem 1990
11- The offerings are my brothers: the Jordanian Ministry of Culture - Amman 1996, the Palestinian Writers Union - Jerusalem 1996
12- Give me an eye of contentment, give me an eye of discontent: Palestinian Ministry of Culture - Gaza 1996
13- Autumn of Attributes: House of Poetry - Ramallah 2001
14- A lost trick: Ugarit Cultural Center - Ramallah 2007
15 - Sharafat Kalam The General Union of Palestinian Writers and Writers - Ramallah 2010
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1- The Palestinian Heritage and Layers: Dar Al-Adab - Beirut 1972, Dar Salah Al-Din - Jerusalem 1976
2- Children's songs in Palestine: Dar Salah El-Din - Jerusalem 1977
3- The richest work and workers in Palestine: Dar Ibn Rushd - Jerusalem, Dar Al-Farabi - Beirut 1977
4- Al-Ghoul / Introduction to the Arab Myth: Dar Al-Ruwad - Jerusalem 1980
5- The Palestinian hero in the folk tale: Ibn Rushd House - Jerusalem, Palestine Liberation Organization - Beirut 1979
6- The Arabic joke: Dar Al-Aswar - Acre 1981
7- Conditions and Phenomena in the Literature of the Occupied Territory: Al-Fajr Foundation - Jerusalem 1984
8- Writing with bound fingers: Dar Al-Aswar - Acre 1981
9- The Intifada and the Local Press: Basia Foundation - Jerusalem 1989
10- The Palestinian Press under Occupation (joint): Muwatin Foundation - Ramallah 1991
11- Press and Democracy (joint): Panorama Foundation - Jerusalem 1990
12- Mirrors of Irony: Dar Al-Fikr - Nablus 1995
13- The ambiguous text / in the cultural and political discourse: Dar al-Mustaqbal - Hebron 1997
14- The narrators' heirs: Dar Al-Aswar - Acre 2000
15- Children's Culture under Occupation: The Palestine Liberation Organization - Tunisia 1994
16- Human handkerchiefs - in the eloquence of the victims and the eloquence of the oppressed: Dar Al-Aswar - Acre 2004
17- Stories over the course of a century / The repercussions of tragedy and the struggles of narration: Dar Al-Shorouk - Ramallah, Amman 2008
18- Selections from Palestinian Poetry - Selection and Presentation: Publications of the Greater Amman Municipality - Amman - 2002
19- Recitations in a new “joint” Palestinian literature: Ugarit Publications - Ramallah 2008
Novel and story
1- Keys turn in locks: Dar Salah al-Din - Jerusalem 1977
2- Light in the Long Tunnel: Dar Al-Aswar - Acre 1979
3- Aish, softening the rocks: Ibn Rushd House - Jerusalem 1978
4- The Music of the Loaves: The Palestinian Writers Union - Ramallah 1998
5- The House of Fire “A Biography”: Dar Al-Shorouk - Ramallah and Amman 1998
6- Maps and horses: Dar Al-Aswar - Acre 1998
his death
The poet Ali Al-Khalili died at his home in Ramallah in the West Bank on October 2, 2013, after a struggle with cancer
Achievements and Awards
Awards
The Palestinian Ministry of Culture chose him as the Cultural Person of the Year for 2011.
He was awarded the Palestinian Medal of Merit and Excellence in 2011, which was awarded by President Mahmoud Abbas “in appreciation of the Palestinian people for his literary and cultural role and contributions in creative fields in the fields of poetry, story and studies of the Palestinian popular heritage.”
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