Personal Info
- Country of residence: Portugal
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Biography
He completed his secondary education at Raghadan Secondary School in Amman in 1968 and obtained a diploma from the Teachers' Institute of Arts in 1970. He worked in teaching, administration, and educational supervision in the United Arab Emirates (1971-1985). He founded a private educational institution in Amman in 1984 and has been its general manager since its inception. He also chairs the board of directors of the Arab Company for Medical Plastic Industries since 1990 and the board of directors of Al-Ameed Pharmaceutical Industries since 2010. He is a member of the Jordanian Writers Association, having served on its administrative board on several occasions and as its secretary (2000-2004). He also headed the Private Schools Owners Syndicate in Jordan (1993-1996) and founded the Al-Ajniha Heritage and Arts Troupe in Amman in 1990.
Novelistic output
• “Death doesn’t always come”, 2002
Other products
“Diwan Al-Bushra” (Poetry), 1990
"Oasis of Hope" (Poetry and National Songs), 1993
“On the Book of Dreams” (poetry), 1997
“Shadow Heights” (poetry), 1998
"Birds of Solitude Operetta" (poetry), 1999
"The Opponent and the Judge Operetta" (Poetry), 2000
“The Thirst of Narcissus” (poetry), 2001
“Petra, the Pink Dream” (Documentary Film Script), 2003
“Early Smiles” (Poetry and Songs for Children), 2005
"Mathematical Pathways" (Educational for Children), 2005
"Arabic Letters and Gems" (Educational for Children), 2005
"The Cicada, the Grasshopper, and Saving" (a children's play), 2007
“Rituals for Safe Entry” (poetry), 2007
“I see what the dove saw” (poetry), 2009
“Alone except for the shirt of songs” (poetry), 2013
"Sunflowers" (Children's Poetry), 2013
“She gave me the sea and hid the shore” (poetry), 2014
“Innocent Bleeding”, 2018
“I believe in the water behind the dam” (poetry), 2020
“I Carried My Head and Adopted Sinbad” (A Poetic Biography), 2020
“First Hundred Words” (Educational for Children)
Criticism and studies about the novelist:
“The Vision and Significance of the Text in the Poetry of Saad al-Din Shahin” by Dr. Abdul Hamid al-Mu’ini and Dr. Ziad Abu Laban, 2019
“Jerusalem is depicted in the poetry of Saad Eddin Shahin” by Dr. Abdul Hamid Al-Muaini, 2022
Other information (awards, seminars, hosting events, etc.):
He won second place in the Gulf Prize for Arabic Poetry, organized by the Emirati newspaper (Al Khaleej) in 1990, for his collection “Diwan Al Bushra”.
His song “I Have a Role in a Better Life” won second prize for best integrated local song at the 8th Arab Children’s Song Festival organized by the Ministry of Culture in 2002.
His collection “Alone Except for the Shirt of Songs” won the award for best poetry collection about Jerusalem from the Jerusalem Intellectuals Association, 2015.
He won the Creativity Award from the Naji Naaman Literary Awards in its seventeenth season, 2019.
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