Birth: NULL/NULL/1926 Death:NULL/NULL/1984
Born in Gaza in 1926; completed his higher education at Gaza College in 1948; attended the AUC and graduated in Literature in 1952 from the Media Dept.; while studying, he published political poems in Egyptian and Palestinian papers and magazines; worked as teacher in refugee camps; worked as cultural editor of Al-Ahram magazine in Egypt from 1960; left Cairo after the death of Gamal Abdul Nasser in 1970; sympathized with communism; became editor-in-chief of Al-Thawra magazine in Syria in 1980; published various literary and poetry pieces, incl. The Palestinian Farmer’s Poem (1946) and the collections The Battle (Arabic, 1952), Jordan and the Cross (Arabic, 1958), Palestine in the Heart (Arabic, 1964), The Trees Die Standing (Arabic, 1966); The Perfume of Land and People (Arabic, 1967), and Poems on the Glass of Windows (Arabic, 1970; English, 1977); some of his works was translated by a Russian poet and published in 1970 in Moscow; his autobiography was translated into English as Descent into the Water: Palestinian Notes from Arab Exile (1980); died in London from a heart attack in 1984; was buried in Cairo.
