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- Country of residence: Portugal
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Biography
He holds Palestinian-Syrian citizenship and works and resides in the United Arab Emirates. He obtained a teaching certificate from the Teachers' Training College in Damascus and studied English literature at Damascus University. He worked as a teacher and later in various positions within the Palestinian press, including the Unified Palestinian Media and the Palestinian magazines Al-Hadaf and Al-Hurriya. He has written and published hundreds of original and translated articles and literary texts in Syrian, Palestinian, and other Arab newspapers. He has two published collections of short stories and also contributes articles to the London-based newspapers Al-Arab and Al-Jadeed.
Other products
“Canned Sardine Beach”
“Al-Bayarat Junction”
“A Tent Made of Cement”, 2022
Criticism and studies about the novelist
Many reviews of his short story collections have appeared in Syrian, Palestinian, and Arab newspapers and magazines.
Other information (awards, seminars, hosting events, etc.)
Winner of the Ghassan Kanafani Award for Journalism. He has been a guest speaker at hundreds of seminars.
His book “A Tent of Cement” won the Ibn Battuta Prize for Travel Literature in the Diaries category at the Rabat International Book Fair, 2022 .
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