Birth: NULL/NULL/1940 Death:NULL/NULL/2001
Born in Jaffa in 1940; became refugee with his family in the 1948 Nakba and ended up in Khan Younis, Gaza; began studying Engineering but his financial situation did not allow him to continue his education; worked as a school teacher in Palestine; moved to Cairo in 1967; later graduated from Cairo University in 1970; wrote many articles and stories; also worked as editor and translated works such as Colin Wilson’s Sex and the Intelligent Teenager (translated 1996) and Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies (translated 1999) and others; authored several books and novels, incl. Al-Mandal (Fortune Telling), Hamdan Taliqan (Hamdan Unbound), and The Encyclopedia of Palestinian Writers in the Twentieth Century (1992); died in 2001; was awarded the Jerusalem Prize by the PA Ministry of Culture on Dec. 2004 as part of the Palestine Cultural Prizes of 2000.
