Atef Abu Saif

Atef Abu Saif ( Arabic عاطف أبو سيف, DMG ʿĀtif Abū Saif ; * 1973 in the Gaza Strip ) is a Palestinian writer and leading politician of the Fatah movement .

Live and act

Atef Abu Saif was born in 1973 in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip to a family originally from Jaffa . He has a BA from Birzeit University , an MA from the University of Bradford (UK) and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Florence , Italy. He teaches political science at Al-Azhar University in the Gaza Strip and is editor-in-chief of Siyasat magazine, published by the Public Policy Institute in Ramallah. He is the author of four novels: Shadows in the Memory (1997), The Tale of the Harvest Night (1999), Snowball (2000) and The Sour Grapes of Paradise (2003). He has also published two collections of short stories, three plays, and a number of political science books, including: Civil Society and the State: A Basic Reading with Special Reference to Palestine (2005).

In German-speaking countries he is known for his book Breakfast with the Drone: Diary from Gaza (Zurich 2015).

In February 2018, Said was appointed spokesman for the Fatah movement. On March 11, 2019, he was reportedly seriously injured in a Hamas attack in the Gaza Strip. Following the elections for Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority in April 2014, Saif was appointed Minister of Culture.

literature

Angela Schader: Where war wields the scepter. Notes by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif. "Atef Abu Saif experienced the devastating armed conflict of 2014 in the Gaza Strip, Samar Yazbek traveled through torn Syria: your reports show the horror of war refugees trying to escape", NZZ , September 22, 2015, International Edition, p. 19.
Breakfast with the drone , Abū-Saif, ʻĀṭif. - Zurich: Unionsverlag, 2015

Web links

Literature by and about Atef Abu Saif in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Atef Abu Said on arabfiction.org

Individual evidence

↑ تكليف عاطف ابو سيف متحدثا اعلاميا باسم "فتح". Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
^ Ulrich Schmid, Gaza City: Gaza: Hamas omnipotence is being questioned by citizens . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed November 25, 2019]).
↑ News on Terror and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (March 13-19, 2019). In: The Meir Amit Information Center on Secret Services and Terrorism. March 22, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .
^ Palestinian Authority and Gaza Strip (March 13-19, 2019). March 24, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .
^ Government against national unity. In: Country Report International Office Palestinian Territories. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, April 2019, accessed on November 25, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Abu Saif, Atef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Palestinian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gaza Strip

[1] تكليف عاطف ابو سيف متحدثا اعلاميا باسم "فتح". Retrieved November 25, 2019 .

[2] Ulrich Schmid, Gaza City: Gaza: Hamas omnipotence is being questioned by citizens . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed November 25, 2019]).

[3] News on Terror and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (March 13-19, 2019). In: The Meir Amit Information Center on Secret Services and Terrorism. March 22, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .

[4] Palestinian Authority and Gaza Strip (March 13-19, 2019). March 24, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .

[5] Government against national unity. In: Country Report International Office Palestinian Territories. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, April 2019, accessed on November 25, 2019 .