Sector : Cultural Figures , Novelists

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• Country of residence: Portugal

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1943

• Age: 83

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Hussein Yassin (born 1943) is a Palestinian writer born in the village of Arraba al-Batouf in the northern Galilee . He studied economics and accounting at Leningrad University and the University of Haifa . He received a degree in insurance from Tel Aviv College in 1993. He worked as an accountant, retired in 2010, and now lives in Jerusalem . He has written three novels: Lamps of Darkness (2006), Duha (2012), and Ali: The Story of an Upright Man (2017), the latter of which was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize . 

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