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- Country of residence: Palestine
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The writer Zaki Al-Aila was born in Jabalia Camp - Gaza Strip on September 1, 1950 to a Palestinian family that was displaced from the town of “Yabna” / Ramla District in 1948.
He finished high school in Jabalia and obtained a doctorate (The Self, the Israeli Other in Novels of the Occupied Territories after 1967) from the Institute of Arab Research and Studies in Cairo.
A founding member of the Palestine Writers Union since 1976, a member of the administrative body for more than one session, and editor-in-chief of “Al-Kalima” magazine - Ramallah, since 1999.
He was a part-time lecturer at more than one Palestinian university.
He won the Short Story Award from Bethlehem University in 1977, and the Palestinian Writers Union Award in 1989.
The writer published several collections of short stories, including: “Thirst” 1978, “The Mountain Does Not Come” 1980, “The Arrest of Muhammad Al-Durra” and a number of other books on heritage studies and literature.
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