(Lebanon, 1972)
He is a Palestinian poet, writer and translator, born in Beirut in 1972. He has been publishing since 1991 in several Lebanese magazines and newspapers. He graduated in journalism and communication from the Lebanese University in 1996. He published his first collection of poems, titled Life is Printed in New York, in 1977, which has been followed by nine others, including: I'll Kill You Death, One Last Selfie with a Dying World, Happiness or A Series of Explosions that Rocked the Capital, This is Not the Way Pizza is Made, Ruins. He has lived and worked in the United Arab Emirates since 2004, where he worked as a translator of American poetry and fiction works in the English language. He currently resides in Barcelona. He has translated more than twenty American poets into Arabic, including Charles Bukowski, Langston Hughes, Kim Addonizio, Robert Bly, in addition to more than forty works by the most important American writers, including: On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel and Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureishi. In 2009 he was one of the 39 Arab authors chosen for the Beirut39 project, which took place in Beirut in 2009-2010 on the occasion of being the World Book Capital. In this year, 2024, he received the Sargon Boulus Prize for Poetry and translation.
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