Rashad Abu Shavir

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Rashad Abu Shawir ( Arabic رشاد أبو شاور, DMG Rašād Abū Šāwir ; * 1942 in Dhikrin near Hebron , League of Nations Mandate for Palestine ) is a Palestinian writer , journalist and literary critic .

Life

He took part early on on the Palestinian side in clashes in the wake of the Palestinian conflict . Abu Shawir lived in Bethlehem , Jericho , Amman and Damascus . He worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Al-Karmel .

Works

  • Dhikrā l-Ayyām al-Mādiyya ( Remembrance of Days Past ), Short Stories, 1970
  • Ayyam al-Hubb wa-l-Maut ( Days of Love and Death ), novel, 1972
  • Bait achdar dhū saqf qirmīdī ( Green House with a Brick Roof ), Short Stories, 1974
  • al-Bakāʾ ʿalā sadr al-Habīb ( Weeping on the Beloved's Breast ), Novel, 1974
  • Al-Ashjār lā tanmū ʿalā d-Dafātir ( The trees do not grow on staples ), short stories, 1975
  • Muhr al-Barārī ( The Wild Horse ), short stories, 1977
  • al-ʿUshshāq ( The Lovers ), novel, 1977

literature

  • Editors: Heinz Odermann, Wolfgang Skillandat, short biography Raschad Abu Shawir in explorations - 16 Palestinian storytellers , Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin 1983, page 236