Fakhri Saleh

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Fakhri Saleh ( Arabic فخري صالح) (* 1957 in Jenin , West Bank ) is a Jordanian writer.

Life

Saleh began studying medicine after graduating from high school in 1976, but broke it off after four years and worked as a journalist in the Arab world and especially in Jordan . At the same time he studied English literature and philosophy. He wrote his master's thesis on V. S. Naipaul ’s Views of Islam in His Travel Books: A Post-Colonial Study . He wrote many books in Arabic on Arabic literature and poetry. In 1997 he received the Palestine literary criticism award and in 2003 the Ghalib Halasa award for his cultural contribution to criticism and for his translations of English books into Arabic . He is also the editor of the daily Ad-Dustour and the director of the Jordanian Society of Literary Critics.

Works (chronological)

  • The Palestinian Short Story in the Occupied Territories (1982)
  • An Anthology of Palestinian Short Story in the Occupied Territories (1982)
  • On the Palestinian Novel (1985)
  • The Illusion of Beginnings: The Discourse of the Novel in Jordan (1993)
  • The Influence of Ritsos in Contemporary Arabic Poetry (1998)
  • The Vanishing Meaning: On Arabic Nouveau Roman (2000)
  • In Defense of Edward Said (2000)

Newspaper articles

personal data
SURNAME Saleh, Fakhri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES فخري صالح (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jordanian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Jenin , West Bank