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Mutawakkil Saeed Bakr Nazzal is a Palestinian poet from the city of Qalqilya , born in 1958. He received 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 affiliated with the League of Arab States in Cairo . He received his poetry education from his father, Saeed Bakr Taha. He has published forty-five books in 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 to 1995. He was elected president of the General Assembly of the Palestinian Higher Education Council from 1992 to 1994. He served as Undersecretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Information from 1994 to 1998. He founded the House of Poetry in Palestine in 1998, along with a number of Palestinian creative figures, and headed it for eight years until 2005. He was the general supervisor and editor-in-chief of the magazines "Poets" and "Aqwas" for eight years. He was elected Secretary-General of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors in 2005, a position he held until 2010. He headed and participated in the Palestinian Writers' Union delegation to the meetings of the General Union of Arab Writers for fifteen years, which were held in most Arab capitals and cities. He was the head of the "Poets Without Borders" organization in Palestine. He also worked as a lecturer at several Palestinian universities. He served as Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information from 2006 to 2012. He organized and participated in hundreds of seminars, conferences, and festivals worldwide, and published extensively both domestically and internationally. Several of his works have been translated into multiple languages. He served as the Palestinian Ambassador to Libya from 2012 to 2015. He currently works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the rank of Ambassador. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Palestine International Award for Creativity and Excellence. Al-Mutawakkil has been honored more than 160 times by Palestinian, Arab, and regional cultural, academic, media, and intellectual institutions. Numerous academic studies and research papers have addressed his poetry and writings in various conferences and conferences. He has received several awards, including the Freedom Award, the Jerusalem Award, and the Resistance Creativity Award.
His poetry publications
Seasons of Death and Life. The Time of Ascension. The Space of Songs. The Foam of the Question. The Wind of the Coming Fire. Or As He Said (Selections). Graves of Water. Black Milk (On Harun al-Rashid and the Barmakids). Inscriptions on a Mural. The Exodus To (On Abu Abd al-Nant al-Saghir and the Surrender of Granada). (The aforementioned poetic works were published by the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing in Beirut in 2003). The Spear Remains the Same. (Dreams of the Prophet's Son). The Boy Said Lebanon . On a Mural. Texts of Elijah and Jebus. Texts of Petra, The Rose of the Caravans. Texts of Hanzala. The Kingdom of the Doves. His studies include: After Two Decades... and a Generation (National Culture in the Occupied Territories Twenty Years After the Occupation), co-authored. Studies in Literature and Language ( Man , Poetry , Theater , Language ). Culture and the Intifada (After a Thousand Days of the Intifada, The Impact of the Intifada on Culture and the Impact of Culture on the Intifada), co-authored. Ibrahim Touqan (A Study of His Poetry). Treasures (What Was Not Known About Ibrahim Touqan), the third edition of which was published under the title "From the Poet's Papers." This is what was necessary: Ibrahim Touqan's Letters to Fadwa Touqan . A Study of the Poem "Red Tuesday," Searching for Another Poet. (The last four books of these studies were published in one volume under the title "Ibrahim Touqan's Gardens" by the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing in Beirut in 2004). Reading the Deleted (Poems Not Published by Fadwa Touqan). Introductions to Modern Palestinian Poetry and National Culture. The Intifada: Mirrors of Blood and Earthquake (A Testimony - Two Years After the Al-Aqsa Intifada). The Image of the Other in Palestinian Poetry. The Illusion of Arrival: Essays in Literature andArt andCulture . The Distinct Novelist. In the Hands of Spring. Questions of Culture and Resistance. Writing of Necessity.
His prose works
Narrative andThe story andHis published works include the novels : *The Serpent's Sand* (a biography of Ketziot, Ansar Detention Camp 3); *The Rose Cloak* (texts on the Intifada and the martyrs); and *The Purity of Silence* (on writing and the concerns of culture). (These prose works were published by the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing in Beirut in 2003). Other works include *Narratives of Madness* (texts) and *The Golden Notebook* (texts). A selection of his prose, titled *Palestinian Narrative*, was also published, including the aforementioned works: *The Forgotten Doors* (detention stories); *The Madness of Libya * (a novel); *Women of Oya* (a novel); *The Color of the Soul* (texts); *Texts of the Body* (*The Witness of Fire*); *Rambier: A Masquerade* (a novel); *Days Outside of Time* (a writer's biography); and *Half a Century of Blood and Ink* (published by Fada'at Publishing House in Amman) . *The Witness of Fire* and *Texts of the Body* were published by Ibn Rushd Publishing House in Cairo. The Lemon Throne: “Qalqilya Texts in the Literature of Mutawakkil Taha – Selections.” An edition of “Texts of the City” was published by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Al-Quds Open University in Ramallah, containing all of Mutawakkil’s writings about Jerusalem. The first edition of “Cities of Rhythm,” containing all of Mutawakkil’s writings about cities and places, was published by Dar al-Jundi for Publishing and Distribution in Jerusalem. An edition of “Palestinian Narrative,” containing a number of his narrative texts, was published by the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt . A new edition of “Texts of the Prison,” containing Mutawakkil’s prison literature, was published by Dar Watan for Media in Palestine .
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