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Said Muhammad Khalil Abu Al-Rish ( May 1 , 1935 - August 29, 2012 ) was a Palestinian writer and journalist .
his life
Said Abu Rish was born in Al-Eizariya to a Palestinian family, and was the eldest of seven brothers. He studied in Jerusalem . His father worked for the Daily Mail newspaper, and shortly after the catastrophe, his family moved to Beirut . A year after the family moved to Beirut, Said Abu Rish went to America to complete his education. He studied at Westtown School in Pennsylvania , a Quaker boarding school, then completed his university education at Princeton and the University of Chicago , where he met his first wife, Prudence Cooper. He then returned to Beirut, where he worked as a correspondent for Radio Free Europe . After that, he immigrated again to the United States , where he worked in the advertising field at the Ted Bates Agency inNew York .
In the seventies he moved to London and worked as an advisor on American affairs to Saddam Hussein and had a role in arms deals, but he resigned from this position in the early eighties in protest of Saddam's use of chemical weapons against Iraqi citizens. [3] [4] Since 1983 he has made a living by writing articles published in various newspapers and has written 11 books. [5] He continued to live in London until 2001 and was a well-known figure in the social life there. He then moved to the south of France, where he had Parkinson's disease, and returned in 2008 to live in his hometown of Al-Eizariya [2] , where he died on August 29, 2012 from heart failure .
His works
Said Abu Rish has written 11 books in English since 1983 and some of them have been translated into Arabic.
The Children of Bethany: The Story of a Palestinian Family. Indiana University Press 1988.
Cry Palestine: From Inside the West Bank. Bloomsbury, London 1991.
The Forgotten Believers: Christians of the Holy Land, Quartet, London, 1993.
The Rise, Corruption, and Potential Fall of the House of Saud, Bloomsbury, London, 1994.
Tough Friendship: The West and the Arab Elites, Victor Golanches, London 1997.
Arafat: From Cannon to Dictator, Bloomsbury, London, 1998.
Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Vengeance, Bloomsbury, New York, 1999.
Gamal Abdel Nasser: The Last of the Arabs, Thomas Dionne/St. Martin Press, New York 2004. (Translated by the Center for Arab Unity Studies)
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