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Biography
He received a bachelor's degree in biology from Yarmouk University in 1982, and a diploma in education and psychology from the same university in 1982. He earned a postgraduate diploma in media management in Denmark in 1997, a master's degree in regional studies from Al-Quds University in 2006, and a doctorate in political science from Cairo University in 2010. He published his first novel, "The Virgin and the Village," in 1992. He moved to Ramallah and was one of the founders of Palestinian radio and television. He began writing short stories at the age of fifteen, publishing them in the newspapers Al-Fajr and Al-Sha'ab, and in the cultural supplement of Al-Baydar Al-Siyasi magazine. He published his first collection of short stories, "Searching for Apples," while studying in Jordan at the age of 20. A lecturer at Al-Quds University, Department of Media and Television (Modern Media Institute) since 2001. He served as editor-in-chief of the Palestinian Medical Journal from 1996 to 1997, and worked as a consultant for the Palestinian Satellite Channel in Ramallah from 2002 to 2005. He received several awards of appreciation at ceremonies held in Damascus, Cairo, and Ramallah.
Novelistic output
“The Virgin and the Village”, 1992
“Qadroun”, 1996
“The Stations of Lovers and Merchants”, 1997
“The End of the Century”, 1999
“Al-Qarmati”, 2001
“Acre and the Kings”, 2003
“Land of the Sea”, 2006
“The Sufi and the Palace: A Possible Biography of Sayyid al-Badawi”, 2017
“Life as it should be”, 2022
Other products
"Searching for Apples" (short story collection), 1981
“Dialogue with an Israeli”, 1993
“The Language of Israeli Media Discourse”, 2006
"King Churchill" (play), 2008
"The American" (play), 2009
“The Pillar of the Throne of God – On Religion and Politics in Israel”, 2011
"The Happy Settlement" (play), 2013
“A New Perspective on the Takfiri Phenomenon” (Study), 2015
“In the Presence of the Beloved: The Quran and the Sultan,” 2016
“The Pharaoh Dynasty: Tales of Claimants to Prophethood, Divinity, and Prophecy”, 2020
Criticism and studies about the novelist
Coal Awards: Studies in the Novels of Ahmed Rafiq Awad, Ali Al-Khawaja, Palestinian Institute for National Guidance, Ramallah, 2003.
The Different: In the world of the novelist and playwright Ahmed Rafiq Awad, by the poet and writer Al-Mutawakkil Taha, 2011.
The poet Al-Mutawakkil Taha described him as being clear and distinctive in his approach, a writer of stories and plays, bold in his social and political presentation, unlike many around him. He wrote the story “A Man Under Occupation” in 1984 in “Al-Fajr Al-Adabi” magazine, and it was one of the first stories that combined the two acts of occupation and backwardness and backward social patterns, and presented a different content that was not prevalent at the level of form and content, and it was evidence that the Palestinian creator inside the occupied land was fully aware of the historical moment, its conditions and its outcomes.
In the book's introduction, Dr. Ali Al-Khawaja says of him: "Ahmed Rafiq Awad possesses a turbulent, impatient, and visionary expressive energy, with the elements necessary for its enduring power and effectiveness. His novels constantly carry within them stimuli that urge our immune systems to vigilance, caution, and confrontation. His writings are laden with a fetus being born and a newborn dying, his train traversing the alienation of alienation, where boundaries dissolve, and where, for Ahmed Rafiq Awad, the novel is a fusion of society, humanity, the psyche, history, geography, and language in the crucible of suggestion and memory." He possesses a profound artistic and literary vision that draws its strength from the Palestinian reality and the depth of daily life we endure under imposed circumstances. He was always searching for truth and creativity, far removed from the falsification of reality. He held a brush that painted the face of the land and the face of woman, a Palestinian world pulsating with thought, culture, and art that springs from the womb of the land, oil, and olives. He was drawn to history and wrote about it with profound insight in purely Palestinian novels.
Other information (awards, seminars, hosting events, etc.)
UNESCO Prize for Young Writers in the Mediterranean Countries, 1978
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate Award for Research Writing, 1996
First Gold Award at the Cairo Radio and Television Festival, 1999
King Abdullah II Award for Creative Writing, 2003
His play “The Happy Settlement,” published in Italian, won the World Muslim Book Award “Culture Prize” – Italy, 2015
An international award was granted to him by the Italian Academy of Arts in Naples in collaboration with the Eboli Center for Cultural and Historical Studies, 2017
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