Hashim Gharayba

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Hāschim Gharāyba (before 2005)

Hāschim Gharāyba ( Arabic هاشم غرايبة, DMG Hāšim Ġarāyiba , often Hashem Ghareibeh ; * 1953 in Hauwara , Jordan ) is an Arabic writer .

During his studies of the "dental laboratory science" at the University of Baghdad from 1970 to 1975 he joined the communist student association. He then taught at the High Medical Institute in Irbid , Jordan, but was sentenced by Jordan to ten years' imprisonment in 1978 for membership of the Communist Student Union in Baghdad, of which he served eight. In 1988 he resumed his studies and graduated in economics in 1990 . Today he works as a dental technician and writer in Jordan.

Haschim Gharayba is a columnist for the Jordan weekly newspaper ar-Ra'i and the newspaper al-Quds al-arabi .

Works

Short stories, short stories, novels

  • 1974 Charisma (Fitnah); Short story
  • 1980 Small worries (Humum saghira); Short story collection
  • 1990 Life through the holes in the container (al-hayātu abra thuqubi al-chazzan); Short story collection
  • 1992 White Raven (Ghūrabun abyad); Stories for children
  • 1994 Qalb al-madīna  /قلب المدينة / 'The Heart of the City'; Short story collection
  • 1999 The deer of the dew (Ghuzlā an-nada); Stories for children
  • 1982 House of Secrets (Bait al-asrār); narrative
  • 1990 Vision (Ru'ia); narrative
  • 1998 Tale of the Sand (al-maqāma ar-ramlia): story
  • 2003 The King of the Market (Ash-Shahbandar); novel
  • 2005 Petra I; novel
  • 2007 Petra II; novel

Plays

  • 1985 Three Jordanian plays:
    • It was and still is (Kāna wa mā zal)
    • The Enchanted Gate (al-bāb al-muschur)
    • The fall of Maqbûl ibn Maqbûl (Masra Maqbūl ibn Maqbūl)
  • 1990 Stand on one foot (al-wuqūf ʿala qadam wāhida)
  • 1995 The Enchanted Forest (al-batu al-maschūr); Play for children
  • 2002 Five Jordanian plays:
    • The man who found his shadow (ar-radschul alladhi wajada thillahu); Monodrama
    • The question (as-su'āl)
    • Adam's apple (Tufāhatu Adām)
    • He and she and the parrot (Hua wa hia wa al-babbaghā)
    • The smell (ar-rahia); Monodrama

Works in German translation

  • 2004 Heart of the City (Qalb al-Madina); translated by Ursula Paszehr-El-Khaled, Jadara-Verlag.

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personal data
SURNAME Gharayba, Hashim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gharaibeh, Hashem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jordanian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hauwara