Birth: NULL/NULL/1940 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Haifa in 1940; fled with his family to Lebanon following the 1948 Nakba, ending up in at Burj Al-Barajneh Refugee Camp; was educated in an Evangelist school in Lebanon, then in an UNRWA school; joined the Syrian Nationalist Party; earned a scholarship to study in the UK, where he lived for three and a half years; returned to Syria, then moved to Saudi Arabia, where he worked with Aramco for one week before joining the Industrial Training Center in Ras At-Tannura as English language teacher; moved to Australia in 1959, where he lived as a traveler, occasionally working in sheep shearing or wool spinning and other jobs; later spent time with Hippies in Nepal, then lived as poet in Paris, and as a homeless in Washington; settled in the US in 1972, worked as a lecturer in the State University of New York at Buffalo, and other places; devoted his time to writing since 1987; has been a writer-in-residence at both SUNY Buffalo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; his publications include the autobiography The Disinherited: Journey of Palestinian Exile (1972), Soul in Exile (New York, 1988) and Exile’s Return: The Making of a Palestinian-American (New York, 1995).
