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Bassam Khalil Franjieh (born in Lebanon in 1950) is a Palestinian translator, critic, author and professor of Arabic literature and language working in the United States of America.
his life
Franjieh was born in the town of Quneitra in the Golan in 1949, to a family of Palestinian refugees, originally from Jaffa, who sought refuge in the Golan after the Nakba. He received his bachelor's degree in Arabic literature from Damascus University, then immigrated to the United States of America and obtained his master's and doctoral degrees from Georgetown University, where he taught for several years.
literature
Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati's Prometheus of Arabic Poetry: The American Journey (The Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing, Beirut, 1996)
Alienation in the Palestinian Novel (Arab Research Institute, Beirut)
The Joy of Discovery: Letters of Nizar Qabbani, Abdel-Wahab Al-Bayati, and Hani Al-Raheb to Bassam Franjieh (Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing, Beirut, 2003)
Translation
Franjieh translated into English the works of Nizar Qabbani, Abdel Wahab Al-Bayati, Hani Al-Raheb, Mahmoud Darwish, Emil Habibi, Hanna Mina, Halim Barakat, Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab and Qassem Haddad. Among the most important translations are:
Love, death, and exile by Al Bayati (Georgetown University Press, Washington, 1990)
Arabian love poems: full Arabic and English texts by Nizar Qabbani (1999)
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