Birth: 1/1/1946 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Bani Na’im, Hebron, in 1946; left in 1964 to study at Cairo University, graduating with a BS from the Sciences Faculty, a Licentiate in Arabic and Islamic Studies in 1968, and an MA in Comparative Literature in 1969; director of cultural programs in the Jordanian radio; in charge of the cultural section of the Filastin Athawra magazine in Beirut in 1974; continued his studies and earned a PhD in Slavic Literature from the Bulgarian Academy of Science in 1981; worked as school principal in Tal Az-Za’tar, Lebanon; also served as deputy-editor of the Palestinian monthly Shu’un Filastiniyya and as editor-in-chief of Al-Ma’raka (the Battle) during the siege of Beirut in 1982; was the Director of cultural programs in Jordanian radio; became Professor of Literature at Constantine University in Algeria from 1983-87; has been Sec.-Gen. of the Arab Contemporary Literary Society since 1984; received prizes from the Jordanian Ministry of Culture in 1995 and the Bronze Sword award from the PA; has published various critical studies and many volumes of poetry, incl. Grapes of Hebron (Beirut, 1968) and Departure from the Dead Sea (Beirut, 1970); a collection of his poems was published in 1990.
