Birth: NULL/NULL/1946 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Haifa in 1946; was with his family expelled to Syria during the 1948 Nakba and raised in Hums and Damascus; worked as a field reporter for the Fateh newspaper from 1969-70, then as its literary editor from 1971-72; became political editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation (Wafa) in Syria in 1972; contributed in script-writing for TV programs in the 1980s; became Secretary of the Lotus magazine in 1988; worked at Al-Bayader paper from 1990-93; became Director of the Cultural Dept. of the PLO; returned to Palestine in 1994 and was appointed Dir.-Gen. of the PA Ministry of Culture after his; wrote songs for Al-‘Ashiqin, a group particularly popular among Palestinians in the Diaspora; was awarded the 1998 Palestine Award for Poetry; works as columnist in the Ramallah-based Al-Hayat Al-Jadida paper and writes for Al-Ittihad paper (Haifa) and Al-Karmel cultural magazine (Ramallah); plays a chief role in Ar-Rou’ya magazine, published by the PA Ministry of Culture; has published many collections of his poetry, which is dedicated to the Palestinian cause, incl. The Story of the Palestinian Boy (Arabic, Beirut, 1971), Mixing Night and Day (Arabic, Beirut, 1979) and Twenty-One Seas (Arabic, Beirut, 1981).
