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The writer and critic Muhammad Al-Batrawi was born in the city of Ashdod in 1929. He received his primary education there, and continued it in Al-Majdal. He participated in the defense of his village in 1948, where he was injured in his leg and head. He completed his secondary studies at Al-Shafi’i School in Gaza City, where he took refuge after the Nakba.
In addition to being an intellectual, Al-Batrawi was known as a political activist in the ranks of the Communist Party. He was arrested more than once, and is considered part of the generation of the “New Horizon” magazine, which was published in Jerusalem in the 1960s.
After the occupation of the rest of the Palestinian territories in 1967, he contributed to nurturing new generations of Palestinian writers and writers through his contribution to establishing literary magazines such as “Al-Bayader” and “Manabir” magazine to publish literary creations and collections of short stories and poetry.
Al-Batrawi worked as editor-in-chief of “Al-Fajr” newspaper between 1974 and 1975, then as literary editor of “Al-Tali’ah,” the newspaper of the Palestinian Communist Party, which was edited by Bashir Barghouti. He also worked as an advisor in the Palestinian Ministry of Culture.
In addition to his love for writing and literature, Muhammad Al-Batrawi is a calligrapher and painter, and he has many paintings and artistic experiments. During his life, Al-Batrawi had called for the formation of an association for Arab Palestinian intellectuals, to serve as a pressing parliament to confront the thorny and dangerous issues of the homeland and the Arab world, drawing inspiration from the pioneering experience that It was fought by Palestinian intellectuals in the forties and fifties of the last century.
Among the titles that Al-Batrawi received were: Sheikh of Critics and Intellectuals, Oak of Palestinian Culture, and Godfather of Pens.
The Palestinian intellectual and creator Muhammad Al-Batrawi zzz*z Abu Khaled zzz*z died on Sunday, 3/13/2011, as a result of a heart attack he suffered in the city of Ramallah.
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