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Al-Mutawakkil Saeed Saleh Taha Nazzal is a Palestinian poet from the city of Qalqilya, born in 1958. He obtained a doctorate in literature and a master’s degree in literature and criticism from Yarmouk University in Jordan, and a doctorate in arts and literature from the Institute of Arab Research and Studies of the League of Arab States in Cairo. Poetry is written by his father, Saeed Bakr Taha. He published forty-five books on poetry, narrative, criticism, and thought.
His life
He was arrested by the Israeli occupation authorities. He was elected President of the Palestinian Writers Union from 1987-1995. He was elected Chairman of the General Authority of the Palestinian Higher Education Council from 1992-1994. He served as Undersecretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Information from 1994-1998. He founded the “House of Poetry” in Palestine in 1998, with a number of Palestinian creatives, and headed it for eight years until 2005. General supervisor and responsible editor of Poets magazine and Aqwas magazine for eight years. He was elected Secretary-General of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Writers from 2005 until 2010. He headed and participated in the delegation of the Palestinian Writers Union in the meetings of the General Union of Arab Writers for fifteen years, which were held in most Arab capitals and cities. President of the “Poets Without Borders” organization in Palestine. He worked as a lecturer at another Palestinian university. He served as Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information from 2006 to 2012. He directed and participated in hundreds of seminars, conferences, and festivals in various countries of the world, and published many of his works at home and abroad, and a number of his works were translated into several languages. He worked as Palestine's ambassador to Libya from 2012 to 2015. He works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the rank of ambassador. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Palestine International Award for Creativity and Excellence. Al-Mutawakkil was honored more than one hundred and sixty times by Palestinian, Arab and regional cultural, academic, media and intellectual institutions. Many academic researches and studies have dealt with the poetry and writings of Al-Mutawakkil Taha, other than a study or a conference. He won many awards, including the “Freedom”, “Jerusalem” and “Resistance Creativity” awards.
His poetry publications
Seasons of death and life. Ascension time. Song space. Foam question. Wind of fire coming. Or as he said (selections). Water graves. Black Milk (on the authority of Harun al-Rashid and al-Baramkeh). Inscriptions on a mural. Exit to (on the authority of Abu Abd al-Nantant al-Saghir and the surrender of Granada). (The aforementioned poetic works were published by the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing in Beirut in 2003). The spear is intact. (Dreams of the Prophet's son). The boy said Lebanon. On a mural. Texts of Elijah and Bus. Petra Texts, Ward Caravans. Texts of Handala. Kingdom of doves. In studies, he published: After Two Decades...and a Generation (National Culture in the Occupied Territories after Twenty Years of Occupation), jointly. Studies in literature and language (human beings, poetry, theater, language). Culture and the Uprising (A Thousand Days After the Uprising, The Impact of the Uprising on Culture and The Impact of Culture on the Uprising), jointly. Ibrahim Touqan (a study of his poetry). Treasures (What is not known about Ibrahim Tuqan), and the third edition was published under the title “From the Poet’s Papers.” This is what is necessary, Ibrahim Tuqan’s letters to Fadwa Tuqan. A study of the poem “Red Tuesday”, searching for another poet. (The last four books of these studies were published in one volume entitled “The Gardens of Ibrahim Tuqan” by the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing in Beirut in 2004). Read the deleted (unpublished poems by Fadwa Tuqan). Introductions to modern Palestinian poetry and national culture. The Intifada, Mirrors of Blood and the Earthquake - (Testimony - Two Years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada). The image of the other in Palestinian poetry. The Illusion of Access: Essays on Literature, Art, and Culture. Different novelist. In the hands of spring. Questions of culture and resistance. Writing necessity.
His prose works
Narrative, story, and novel (prose works). He has published: Sand of the Snake (Biography of Katziot, Ansar Detention Center 3). The Mantle of Roses (Texts of the Intifada and Martyrs). The Purity of Silence (about writing and cultural concerns). (The prose works mentioned were published by the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing in Beirut in 2003). Narratives of madness - texts. Gold Notebook - Texts. A prose anthology entitled A Palestinian Narrative was published. Previous works included The Forgotten Doors - Stories of His Detention. Madness of Libya - Women of Oya - a novel. The color of the soul - texts. Body Texts - Witness the Fire. Rambert's novel The Masquerade. Days Out of Time, the biography of a writer, half a century of blood and ink. Published by Spaces House - Amman. Witness the Fire, Texts of the Body, published by Ibn Rushd Publishing House in Cairo. The Throne of Lemons” Qalqilya Texts in the Literature of Al-Mutawakkil Taha - Selections. An edition of the book “Texts of the City” was issued by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Al-Quds Open University in Ramallah, which included everything Al-Mutawakkil wrote about Jerusalem. The first edition of the book “Cities of Rhythm” was issued by Dar Al-Jundi for Publishing and Distribution in Jerusalem, which included everything Al-Mutawakkil published about cities and places. An edition of the book “A Palestinian Narrative” included a number of his narrative texts about the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt. A new edition of the book “Texts of the Detainee,” which contained what Al-Mutawakkil had accomplished regarding prison literature, was issued by Watan Media House in Palestine.
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