Birth: NULL/NULL/1950 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Fassuta, Galilee, in 1950; enrolled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1968 and studied English and Arabic Literature and Art History, graduating in 1972; served as editor of the monthly Arabic literary magazine Al-Sharq, published in Jerusalem, from 1970-75; produced Arabic language programs for Israeli television from 1976-86; worked as freelance journalist and writer for Hebrew-language Israeli newspapers in the early 1980s; moved to the US in 1987 and worked at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as a Visiting Fellow, then as Professor in the Dept.s of English and Near Eastern Studies and the Comparative Literature Program; is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Writers Center at Washington University in St. Louis since 1991; member of the Editorial Board of Michigan Quarterly Review since 1992; founding member of The International Parliament of Writers in Strasbourg, France, since 1994; serves as Acting Chair of the Comparative Literature Program since 1999; Editorial Committee member of the Journal of Palestine Studies since 2002; also works as translator and writes poetry, plays, essays and fiction; his works include the novel Arabesques (1986).
