Personal Info
- Country of residence: Palestine
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Walid Al-Sharafa is a Palestinian writer and novelist, born in 1973. He wrote four novels and one play. His novels, “Heir of the Evidence,” published in 2017, and “Coming from Resurrection,” published in 2008, were shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction – Booker. He also has a number of critical literary researches and books, including “Edward Said and the Criticism of the Reincarnation of Orientalism: The Discourse, the Other, the Image,” which was published by Dar Al-Ahlia for Publishing and Distribution.
Professional biography
Walid Al-Sharafa is a Palestinian writer who was born in the city of Nablus, Palestine in 1973. He graduated from Birzeit University, where he obtained a master’s degree for the thesis “The Early Arabic Narrative” in 2000. He then obtained a doctorate in Arabic literature from the University of Jordan in 2006 for his thesis, “The Discourse at Edward Said. Al-Sharafa has been a professor of media, cultural and Arabic studies, and criticism at Birzeit University since 2006. In 1991, he wrote his first play while still in high school, entitled “The People’s Court.” Three years later, he wrote his first novel, “Confessions of an Absent.” In 2008, he published the novel “Coming from Resurrection,” which was shortlisted for the International Arab Booker Prize, then in 2017 he published his novel “Heir of the Evidence,” which was also shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2018. Most of his novels revolve around the Palestinian issue and its suffering. The Palestinian people over the years. Al-Sharafa also published books and research on literary criticism and politics, including the book “Al-Jazeera and the Brotherhood.” From Discourse Authority to Discourse Authority” in 2013, which was issued by the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing in Beirut, where it dealt with several Arab political topics.
His writings
a play
People's Court, 1991
Novels
Confessions of an Absentee, 1994
Next of Resurrection, 2008
Heir of Evidence, 2017
I wish I had written blind, 2019
Swing of Bones 2022
Literary books
Early Arabic Narrative, 2000
Al Jazeera and the Brotherhood; From the power of discourse to the discourse of authority, 2013
Edward Said and the Criticism of the Reincarnation of Orientalism: Discourse, the Other, the Image, 2019
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