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• Страна местожительства: Jordan

• Пол: Male

• Born in: 1963

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Ziad Barakat (born August 8, 1963 in Deir al-Balah ) is a Palestinian- Jordanian writer , and a former member of the Jordanian Writers Association.

 

His education

He obtained a BA in Arabic Literature from Yarmouk University in 1987.

 

His professional life

Barakat worked in the daily newspaper Al-Dustour between 1990 and 1997, then as a journalist and head of the cultural section in the daily newspaper Al- Arab Al-Youm in 1997, then as a journalist and cultural editor in the Qatari newspaper Al-Sharq between 1998 and 2002. He then moved on to work as a program preparer and senior journalist for the Qatari news channel Al Jazeera since 2002.
He was a member of the Jordanian Writers Association and resigned from it in 2011 in protest against the association’s pro-Syrian regime stance.

 

His works

“A Short Journey to the End of the Earth” (a collection of short stories), Azmana House, Amman, 1993 
“Forgotten, Forgotten” (short novel, novella), Azmana House, Amman, 2003
“The Last Supper” (stories), Azmana House, Amman, 2004
“Taq Taq Taqiya” (a play), 2010 

 

Достижения и награды

Awards

State Encouragement Award in Literature, field of stories, for the short story collection “A Short Travel to the End of the Earth,” 1995

 

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