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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Jamel Mahmoud Abu Subaih (August 28,
1953 AD) is a Jordanian poet and journalist of Palestinian origin. He was born
in Ain al-Sultan camp in Jericho. He studied in Amman, Damascus and Beirut. He
worked as a literary editor for a number of Gulf Arab newspapers and published
his poetry in magazines, newspapers and specialized ones. He has many
collections of poetry.
his biography
Jamil Mahmoud Abu Sbeih was born on
August 28, 1953 / Dhu al-Hijjah 18, 1372 in Ain al-Sultan camp, on the western
side of the city of Jericho. He graduated from high school at the Arab School
in Amman in 1970 AD, and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Arabic language and
literature from the University of Damascus in 1975 AD, then a diploma in Arabic
language from Saint Joseph University in Lebanon in 1979 AD, then a diploma in
philosophy from the University of Jordan in 1986 AD.
Khaled Abu Khaled was the first poet
to present his poems to him in the first year of his studies at the University
of Damascus, and he encouraged him.
He worked as a literary editor for a
number of Gulf Arab newspapers. From 1979 until 2002, he worked as a government
employee in Qatar, and in the UAE newspaper Al-Ittihad.
He is a member of the Jordanian
Writers Association, and has chaired its branch in Zarqa since 2011. He is also
a member of the General Union of Arab Writers, the Jordanian and Arab House of
Poetry, and head of the Zarqa International Poetry Festival Committee and a
member of the Asian and African Writers Union. He returned from Doha to Zarqa
in 2010. The Jordanian Writers Association honored him on May 14, 2014.
His writings
Among his poetry collections:
Horses, 1980
The Sea, 1980
The Wild Morning March, unprinted,
1982
Similarities, 1986
Migrations, 1989
The horse, the sea, the body, 1993
Al-Barari, 1995
Rains, 1996
Trees of Fire, 1999
Al-Jamr, 2000
Luminous Narratives, 2017
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