- Ibrahim Nasrallah
Ibrahim Nasrallah ( _ar. إبراهيم نصرالله; born 1954 in
Amman ,Jordan , in Wihdat refugee camp) is aPalestinian poet, novelist, professor, painter and photographer.He studied in
UNRWA schools in the camp and got his teaching degree from a training college in the camp.He taught in Saudi Arabia for 2 years and worked as a journalist between 1978 and 1996. Nasrallah then returned to Jordan and worked at Dostur, Afaq and Hasad newspapers. He is in charge of cultural activities at Darat-al-Funun in Amman. He has published 10 books of poetry, seven novels and two children's books.Nasrallah is a member of the Sakakini General Assembly.
Published works
*"Horses are Overlooking the City", 1980
*"Morning Songs", 1984
*"The Last Dialogue a Few Minutes Before the Killing of the Sparrow", 1984
*"Prairies of Fever", 1985
*"The River Boy and the General", 1987
*"The Rain Inside; Storms of the Heart", 1989
*"Green Wood", 1991
*"The Fox's Scandal", 1993
*"Verandahs of Autumn", 1997
*"The Book of Death and the Dead", 1998
*"In the Name of the Mother and the Son", 1999
*"Mirrors of Angels", 2001
*"The Birds of Warning".Awards
*The Award for Best Poetry Collection published in Jordan.
*The Arar literary Award for his body of work in 1991.
*The Jordanian Writers Society Honorary prize three times for three of his poetry collections.
*The Sultan Oweiss Award.
*In the United Arab Emirates he received the Al-Uweis Literary Award in 1997, a prize for Arab language poets.Controversy
In June 2006, Nasrallah's fourth collection of poetry "Nu’man Yastariddu Lawnahu" (Anemone Regains Its Colour) first published in 1984, was suddenly banned in Jordan, while Nasrallah faced charges of insulting the state, inciting dissension and reporting inaccurate information to future generations.
In an interview with
The Guardian , Nasrallah commented on the charges he was facing by saying: "I was completely shocked,I did not know how to respond. All I could think of at that moment was that I needed to finish the book I was working on before things got worse. But I was unable to continue writing. I was confused and angry and also afraid." [http://books.guardian.co.uk/voicesofprotest/story/0,,2001491,00.html#article_continue Ibrahim Nasrallah profiled at the Guardian.]
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