(Akka, Palestine 1936 - Beirut, Lebanon 1972) Born into a middle-class family. While still very young, the family moved to live in Haifa, from where he had to flee due to the war in 1948. He was a school teacher and also an arts professor at the UNWRA schools (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East). He studied literature at the University of Damascus. In 1966, he received the Lebanon Book Friends Award for best novel for his work What Remains and posthumously, in 1974, the World Organization of Journalists Award and in 1975 the Lotus Award from the Union of Afro-Asian Writers. He is considered today one of the most prominent representatives of contemporary Arab literature in general and Palestinian literature in particular.
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