Sector : Cultural Figures , Novelists

Personal Info

• Country of residence: Portugal

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1971

• Age: 55

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Biography

He was born and educated in Nablus. He earned a bachelor's degree in Arabic literature from Birzeit University and a master's degree in international relations from the same university. He worked as an editor for the newspaper Al-Ayyam and at the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies (Madar). He edited part of the diaries of the Palestinian educator Khalil Sakakini. His novels "The Biography of the Sweating Scorpion" and "The Stork Was Confused" have been translated into French. He is the managing editor of the quarterly journal "Siyasat," published by the Institute for Public Policy in Ramallah.

Novelistic output

“Alexander’s Obsessions”, 2003
“The Diaries of Khalil al-Sakakini: Book One”, 2003
“The Diaries of Khalil al-Sakakini: Book Two”, 2004
“The Diaries of Khalil al-Sakakini: Book Three”, 2006
“The Story of the Sweating Scorpion”, 2008
“The Stork Was Confused”, 2012
“A Girl from Shatila”, 2019
“Gaza Tells Its Story of Genocide” (co-authored), 2024

Other information (awards, seminars, hosting events, etc.)

The novel “The Biography of the Sweating Scorpion” won the Abdul Mohsen Al-Qattan Foundation Award for Young Literature, 2007.
The novel “A Girl from Shatila” won the Palestine Prize for Literature, Arts and Humanities, 2019.

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