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Izz al-Din al-Manasra (born on April 11, 1946 in Bani Naim - died on April 5, 2021 in Amman), a Palestinian poet, critic, thinker, and academic. Winner of several awards as a writer and academic. He is one of the poets of the Palestinian resistance since the late sixties, when his name was associated with the armed and cultural resistance and with poets such as Mahmoud Darwish, Abd al-Karim al-Karmi, Samih al-Qasim and Tawfiq Ziad, or as they are collectively called the “Four Greats of Palestinian Poetry.” Where his poems were sung by Marcel Khalife and others, and his poems "Jafra" and "Balakhdar as his shroud" became famous. Contributed to the development of modern Arabic poetry and the development of cultural criticism methodologies. Ihsan Abbas described him as one of the pioneers of the modern poetic movement.
He obtained a BA in Arabic language and Islamic sciences from Cairo University in 1968, where he began his poetic career. Then he moved to Jordan and worked as a director of cultural programs on the Jordanian Radio from 1970 to 1973. In the same period, he established the Jordanian Writers Association with a group of thinkers. Jordanian writers.
Al-Manasra became involved in the ranks of the Palestinian revolution after it moved to Beirut, where he volunteered in the ranks of the military resistance in parallel with his work in the Palestinian cultural field and the cultural resistance as an independent, and also within the institutions of the revolution as the cultural editor of the “Palestine Al-Thawra” magazine speaking on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization and as the editor-in-chief of the “Al-Maikah Newspaper.” » (issued during the siege of Beirut) in addition to his work as editor-in-chief of the “Palestinian Affairs Magazine” affiliated to the Palestinian Research Center in Beirut. He was elected as a member of the military command of the joint Palestinian-Lebanese forces in the south of Beirut region during the beginnings of the Lebanese civil war in 1976. He was assigned by Yasser Arafat to run the school for the sons and daughters of Tal al-Zaatar camp after the displacement of the remaining residents of the camp to the Lebanese village of Damour.
He later completed his postgraduate studies, obtaining a (specialization certificate) in modern Bulgarian literature, and a Ph. Until he left Beirut among the ranks of the fedayeen as part of the deal to end the siege.
Advocacy moved between several countries before it landed in Algeria in 1983, where he worked as a professor of literature at the University of Constantine and then the University of Tlemcen. In the early 1990s, he moved to Jordan, where he established the Department of Arabic Language at Al-Quds Open University (before moving its headquarters to Palestine), after which he became Director of the Faculty of Educational Sciences affiliated to the Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) and the University of Philadelphia, where he obtained the rank of professor (Professor) in 2005. He won several awards in literature, including: the Jordanian State Appreciation Prize in the field of poetry in 1995, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2011.
Muhammad Izz al-Din al-Manasra was born on April 11, 1946, in the village of Bani Naim, which was then under the rule of the British Mandate in Palestine. His father, Sheikh Izz al-Din Abd al-Qadir al-Manasra, was one of the notables of the Hebron region and a tribal arbitrator. His grandfather was a popular poet in the Hebron Mountains from the beginning of the twentieth century until his death in 1941. His mother was Nafisa Musa al-Manasra. Al-Manasra has three brothers: “Shehdeh”, the older brother worked as an employee at the Jordanian Post and translated the novel “Around the World in Eighty Days” by Jules Verne into Arabic, the second brother: “Daoud” studied business administration in the United States and worked as an accountant in several Arab countries, and the brother The youngest: Abbas completed his studies at the University of Damascus and worked in the teaching profession. He has published books and researches in grammar, history and Islamic literature. Al-Manasra began his studies at Bani Naim Elementary, and then joined Al-Hussein Bin Ali High School in Hebron. From a young age, he began composing poetry and publishing articles in popular literary magazines at that time in the beginning of 1962. Advocacy poetry was influenced by the peculiarity of the place in which he grew up, as it had a close connection with myths, popular culture, and the lifestyle associated with the history of the region, which extends from the emergence of the Canaanites in the Copper Age to the modern era. This influence appeared through the vocabulary and expressions and the use of advocacy for the various cultural concepts related to the ancient and modern history of Palestine.
poetic collections
O Grape of Hebron, Cairo - Beirut, 1968.
Exit from the Dead Sea, Beirut, 1969.
Dead Sea Memoirs, Beirut, 1969.
Jerash's moon was sad, Beirut, 1974.
We shrouded him in green, Beirut, 1976.
Jafra, Beirut, 1981.
Al-Manasra passed away on Monday, April 5, 2021 AD, corresponding to Shaaban 23, 1442 AH, in the Jordanian capital, Amman, due to complications from Covid-19 disease, at the age of 74.
Достижения и награды
Prize for first place in poetry, in Egyptian universities, awarding body: Cairo University Presidency, United Arab Republic, 1968.
The Jerusalem Medal, Awarding Body: The Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 1993.
Ghaleb Halsa Prize for Cultural Creativity, Awarding Body: The Jordanian Writers Association, Amman, Jordan, 1994.
State Appreciation Award, in Literature, (The Field of Poetry), Awarding Body: The Jordanian Ministry of Culture, Amman, 1995.
Seif Kanaan Prize, the donor: the Palestinian Fatah Movement, 1998.
Award for Academic Excellence and Excellence in Teaching, awarding body: Philadelphia University, 2005.
Distinguished Researcher Award in the Humanities, for his book: (The Science of Intertextuality and Divorce) Awarding Body: The Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education, 2008.
Jerusalem Prize, the awarding body, the General Union of Arab Writers and Writers, Cairo - July 2011.
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