Elias Sanbar

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Elias Sanbar (* 1947 in Haifa , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ) is a Palestinian politician, publicist and translator who lives in Paris.

Life

Sanbars parents fled in 1948 after the establishment of the State of Israel in the Lebanon . Sanbar studied law in Paris , Beirut and Princeton . In 1968 he joined the Palestinians' struggle against Israel. He worked at the Institute for Palestinian Studies in Beirut since 1971 and experienced the first years of the civil war in Lebanon , so that he had to go back to Paris. In 1980 he founded the Revue d'études palestiniennes (Journal of Palestinian Studies) together with Leila Shahid and Farouk Mardam-Bey, of which he was part of the editorial team from 1981 to 2006, the revue ceased to appear in 2008.

Sanbar has been a member of the Palestinian National Council since 1988 . He represented the interests of the Palestinian people in various international organizations, took part in the Madrid Conference in 1991 and in the negotiations in Washington and Tunis in 1992/1993. He is a supporter of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine . He has been the representative of the Palestinian Autonomous Territories at UNESCO since 2006 and has been ambassador there since October 2011, after he achieved diplomatic recognition by Unesco.

Sanbar has written on Palestine and has translated works by the Palestinian national poet Mahmud Darwish into French.

A controversial conversation with Stéphane Hessel was published in German translation in 2012.

Fonts (selection)

  • Le Rescapé et l'Exilé . With Stéphane Hessel . Don Quixote éditions, Paris, 2012
  • Figures du Palestine: identité des origines, identité de devenir , 2004
  • Les Palestiniens: la photographie d'une terre et de son peuple de 1839 à nos jours , 2004
  • The droit au retour: the problem of the réfugiés palestiniens , 2002
  • Jerusalem: le sacré et le politique , 2000
  • Palestine, le pays à venir , 1996
  • Les Palestiniens dans le siècle , Découvertes Gallimard series (nº 201), Gallimard, 1994
  • Palestine 1948, l'expulsion 1984

Translations (selection)

  • Israel and Palestine With Stéphane Hessel . Translated by Edmund Jacoby . Berlin: Jacoby & Stuart, 2012
  • Mahmud Darwish: Murale: poème , 2003
  • Mahmud Darwish: La terre nous est étroite: et autres poèmes: 1966–1999 , 2000
  • Mahmud Darwish: La Palestine comme métaphore: entretiens , 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leila Shahid, Palestinian diplomat, see fr: Leïla Shahid in the French-language Wikipedia
  2. ↑ Farouk Mardam-Bey, librarian and director of the Institut du monde arabe , see fr: Farouk Mardam-Bey in the French-language Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Sanbar, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian politician, publicist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa