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Saeed Muhammad Khalil Abu Al-Rish ( May 1 , 1935 - August 29 , 2012 ) [1] [2] was a Palestinian writer and journalist .
His life
Saeed Abu Rish was born in Al-Eizariya to a Palestinian family, and he was the eldest of seven brothers. He studied in Jerusalem . His father worked for the Daily Mail newspaper, and shortly after the Nakba, he moved his family to Beirut . A year after the family moved to Beirut, Saeed Abu Rish headed to America to complete his education. He studied at the 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 . He then immigrated again to the United States , where he worked in advertising at the Ted Bates agency in New York .
In the seventies, he moved to London and worked as an advisor on American affairs to Saddam Hussein . He had a role in arms deals, but he resigned from this position in the early eighties in protest against Saddam's use of chemical weapons against Iraqi citizens. [3] [4] Since 1983, he has made a living by writing articles that he published in various newspapers and writing 11 books. [5] He continued to live in London until 2001 and was a well-known figure in social life there. He then moved to the south of France, where he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He returned in 2008 to live in his hometown of Al-Eizariya [2] , where he died on August 29, 2012 from heart failure . [6]
His works
Saeed Abu Rish has written 11 books in English since 1983 and translated some of them into Arabic.
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 Destiny Fall of the House of Saud, Bloomsbury, London, 1994.
A Tough Friendship: The West and the Arab Elites, Victor Golancz, London 1997.
Arafat: From Defender to Dictator, Bloomsbury, London 1998.
Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge, Bloomsbury, New York, 1999.
Gamal Abdel Nasser: The Last of the Arabs, Thomas Dionne/St. Martin's Press, New York 2004. (Translated by the Center for Arab Unity Studies)
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