Sayed Kashua
Sayed Kashua ( Arabic سيد قشوع Sayyid Qashūʿ ; Hebrew סייד קשוע; * July 31, 1975 in Tira , Israel ) is an Israeli writer and journalist of Arab origin.
Life
Kashua grew up in the northern border area with the West Bank and lived as an adult with his wife and children in the Palestinian part of the village of Beit Safafa near Jerusalem before he moved to a Jewish quarter in the west of Jerusalem.
He writes in Hebrew and addresses the social and cultural field of tension of the Palestinians, who are also Israeli citizens. His previously published novels became bestsellers in Israel. He also writes the scripts for the Israeli sitcom Awoda Aravit ( Arab Labor ) for the television station Arutz 2 and works as a columnist for the two newspapers Ha'ir and Haaretz .
In July 2014 he announced in Spiegel that he would emigrate to the USA . He cited the increasing inequality of treatment of Arab Israelis in Israeli society as the reason . Kashua has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2014 .
For his literary work, Kashua received the Lessing Academy Award in 2006 and the Award of the Israeli Television Academy in the category Best Script in a Comedy Series in 2011 and 2012 .
In 2016 he refused an honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion University in protest against the fact that the rector of the university had prevented the Berelson Prize for Jewish-Arab understanding from being awarded to the NGO Breaking the Silence .
Works
- Dancing Arabs ( Ar¯avîm rôqedîm ), 2002; ISBN 978-3-8333-0095-0
- Then it was morning ( Way-yehî bôqer ), 2005; ISBN 978-3-8333-0400-2
- Second person singular , 2010; ISBN 978-3-8270-1013-1
- Native. My Israeli-Palestinian life. Columns from 2006–2014 . From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8270-1316-3
Movies
- 2014: Mein Herz tanzt ( Dancing Arabs ) - Screenplay based on his novels Dancing Arabs and Second Person Singular .
watch TV
- 2007: Arab Labor - screenplay
- 2009: Forever Scared - Documentary about Sayed Kashua
- 2015: The Writer - screenplay
Web links
- Literature by and about Sayed Kashua in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sayed Kashua in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Author profile on the publisher's website
- Sayed Kashua on Deutschlandfunk reviews / interview
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0904447/
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/sayed-kashua
- ↑ Goodbye, Israel . Der Spiegel , 29/2014, July 14, 2014
- ↑ http://www.berlinverlag.de/buecher/tanzende-araber-isbn-978-3-8333-0095-0
- ^ Sayed Kashua: Why Sayed Kashua Is Rejecting His Honorary Doctorate From Ben-Gurion University. In: Haaretz , July 9, 2016
- ↑ Or Kashti: Israeli University Nixes Decision to Grant Prize to Breaking the Silence. In: Haaretz , June 26, 2016; An Israeli University Teaches a Lesson in Spinelessness. In: Haaretz , 28. June 2016; Or Kashti: Ben-Gurion University Slammed for Nixing Breaking the Silence's Prize. In: Haaretz , July 5, 2016.
- ↑ https://www.kcet.org/shows/arab-labor
- ↑ http://www.ruthfilms.com/sayed-kashua-forever-scared.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kashua, Sayed |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | سيد قشوع (Arabic); סייד קשוע (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palestinian-Israeli writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tira , Israel |