Samia Nadeem Hassan Al-Atout , a Jordanian writer and storyteller of Palestinian origins . She began her journey with story writing in the mid-eighties of the last century, where she wrote her first collection of short stories in 1984.It was published in 1986 under the title (Walls that Absorb Sound), and it received widespread response at the time and provided an incentive for her to continue writing.
She subsequently published a number of short story collections and participated in joint poetry and short story collections. Her narrative experience is distinguished by her special, unique style of formulating short story sentences, which relies on action and movement most of the time and on condensation and brevity in the language. Most of her stories are characterized by poetic language and images without detracting from the joy of storytelling. In her works, the writer focused on developing narrative styles and diversifying narrative styles and topics. Storyteller Samia Al-Atout is considered one of the pioneers in the art of the very short story and modern narrative styles in Jordan and the Arab world. Contents 1 Her life 2 Her literary career 3 Her works
Her life
Samia Al-Atout was born in the city of Nablus in 1957, where she lived her early childhood. The June 1967 war had a major impact on her life. She received her education in the city's schools, starting with the Mariusif Sisters until the second grade of primary school, then in the Cordoba and Fatimiyah schools, and finished secondary school in the Al-Aisha School.
She then moved to study at Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad - Iraq, where in 1979 she obtained a bachelor’s degree in contemporary mathematics, with distinction. After graduating in 1979, she worked at the Arab Bank in Amman in the field of information management as a programmer and then a principal systems analyst, and in the field of research and editing and in human resources management, until 2005. She also worked as an editor for the Science and Life page in Al-Dustour newspaper from 1990 until 1999. I also worked in the Jordanian Ministry of Culture on a project...,
Her literary career
She showed signs of literary talent from a young age, as she was interested in poetry and wrote her first poem after her father’s death in 1971. Since then, she has lived in the worlds of books, looking at the translated classics of the great writers, and her readings varied between poetry by poets of the occupied territories and existential philosophy by Jean-Paul.
Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, which were greatly influenced by her, as well as Marxist and other philosophy. Samia Al-Atout's narrative writings were distinguished by their diversity in narrative writing styles, and in the use of poetic images and sentences in her stories. Her stories ranged from short to very short. (Walls that Absorb Sound) was the first collection of short stories that I completed and published in 1986. It featured poetic language and graceful narrative sentences, and it dealt with the themes of alienation and social changes that affect cities and people. Through this collection, she was able to find a distinguished place in writing stories.
As for her second collection (Female Rituals), it represented a qualitative shift in her writing, as her interest in women’s issues and human alienation in a world whose harsh features began to become clear with the collapse of the Soviet Union increased. She divided her collection into three sections: Female Rituals, Amoeba Rituals, and Rebellion Rituals, and she participated in The manuscript collection in the Arab Youth Intellectual Creativity Competition, winning first place in it. The writer Samia Al-Atout continued to develop her tools and methods in subsequent collections, which are Mozart's Tarbish, Strife Pants, The Bell Ringer (The Female Spider) and her latest collection (Picasso's Café).
In her stories, she moved to new levels in terms of narrative methods and topics, and she dealt with contemporary scientific issues such as cloning and genetic engineering, women’s issues, and political issues, the most important of which is the Palestinian issue in all of her collections. The suffering of women in the Arab world also had a large role in her writings. Her writings were characterized by high craftsmanship within a progressive line of development in the field of short stories, and according to the Egyptian philosopher Dr. Anis Mansour, they are about a female ritual (complete with the tools of strong performance and beautiful art, quick phrases, flying meanings, a close goal, and a painful joke that cannot be missed), and according to the Moroccan critic Mohamed Moatasem (a writer who is dazzling in her seamless way of penetrating the inner worlds of her fictional characters in (The Bell Ringer) and who is adept at exposing the behavioral contradiction of modern people).
During that period, she also worked as a writer of political and literary articles in Al-Dustour and Al-Rai newspapers, and in other platforms. She was a member of the Poetry Committee of the Jerash Festival for the years 1990-1991, and a member of the Jordanian Writers Association, the General Union of Arab Writers, and the Internet Writers Union. She participated in many local, Arab and international evenings, meetings and conferences.
Her works
The following collections of short stories:
- Sound Absorbing Walls (1986)
- Female Ritual (1990)
- Mozart's Tarbush (1998)
- Fitna Pants (2002)
- Ringer (Female Spider) (2008)
- Picasso Cafe (2012)
Graphic novel:
- The world is going to come (2013).
Shared books
- Short story collections and shared books
- Selections from short stories in Jordan: Ministry of Culture/Amman 1992
- The Other Voice: Ugarit Center/Ramallah 1999 (selections of stories by female writers: JORDANIAN FICTION – 1993 Ministry of Culture/Amman
- Poetic Spaces: Syria/Aleppo 1999
- Location listing: Ministry of Culture - Amman
- Naji Al-Ali...a pulse that is still within us - 2012 (participant)
- The narrative scene in Jordan.
(Anthology)
Book: JORDANIAN FICTION - 1993 - Fahd Salama - Jordanian Ministry of Culture Book: Anthology of the Short Story in Jordan: by Dr. Amina Amin, published by the American publishing house (O Books), entitled Under A Starlit Sky - Jordanian Voices 2010
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