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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Ismail Ibrahim Shatat, also known as Ibn al-Shati (May 28, 1939 - April 29, 2008), was a Palestinian poet. He was born in Jisir. He studied in Hebron, then went to Egypt and studied Arabic literature at Cairo University. He worked as a teacher in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Algeria. He entered journalism and worked in the Lebanese press in the late fifties, then in the Algerian press and radio. He is the founder of the Association of Coastal Writers in Syria in 1966, a founding member of the Arab Writers Union in Syria, and the head of the branch of the Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists in the Maghreb between 1974 - 1981. He wrote more than thirty collections. He immigrated to Algeria in 1970, chose the city of Jijel in Algeria as a settlement and died there.
his biography
Ismail Ibrahim Ahmed Shatat was born on 28 May 1939 - 9 Rabi' al-Akhir 1358 in Jisir, north-east of Gaza, and grew up there. He completed his high school studies in Hebron, and his university studies majoring in Arabic literature in Cairo.
He worked as a teacher in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Algeria. He also worked in the Lebanese press in the late fifties, the Algerian press, and on radio directed to the Arab Levant. Then he returned to teaching in technological institutes and secondary schools in Algeria.
He is the founder of the Association of Coastal Writers in Syria in 1966, a founding member of the Union of Arab Writers in 1968, and the head of the branch of the Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists in the Maghreb 1974 - 1981. He was a member of the General Secretariat of the Union of Afro-Asian Writers and a member of the International Union of Writers. He received honorary membership in several Arab unions: the Algerian Writers Union, the Arab Writers Union, the Iraqi Writers Union, and the Jordanian Writers Association. In addition to the Palestinian Writers Union.
Ibn al-Shati died on the night of April 29, 2008 - Rabi' al-Akhir 23, 1429 in Jijel, Algeria.
His writings
From his published poetry collections:
Heartbeats, 1964
Stations on the Memory of Time, 1966
Circle of Rejection, 1978
Palestinian Time Renewed in the Third Dimension, 1979
High Noon Confessions, 1981
Galiti does not know the art of dancing, 1982
Mason and the Cancer Difficult Situation, 1983
Confessions of High Noon, 1983
The Hanging Gardens and Alternate Time, 1999
The Alphabet of Exile and Venice, 2004
A fuller mother renewed despite the long night, 2007
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