Sector : Cultural Figures , Artists

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• Country of residence: Palestine

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1931

• Age: 89

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Born in 1931 in Galilee, he is a Palestinian poet who belongs to the generation of resistance poets.

He learned in school for only four years of his life, the beginning of the tourist growth in Nazareth.

Palestinian poet and short story writer Taha Muhammad Ali grew up in Saffuriya, Galilee. During the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, he moved with his family to Lebanon for a year; Since then he has lived in Nazareth, where he owns a souvenir shop. Self-taught through his readings of classical Arabic literature, American fiction, and English poetry, Ali started writing poems in the 1970s. His collections in English include Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story (2000) and So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971--2005 (2006).

Achievements and Awards

The Fourteenth Poem, Other Poems, Nazareth, 1983, Audio.

Laughed at the killers' beards. Haifa, 1989, Arab Writers Union.

Fire in the monastery cemetery. Taiba, 1992 Heritage Revival Center.

God, Caliph and Boy, Colorful Butterflies Boy, 2002, Nazareth

A collection of stories is The Symphony of the Barefoot Boy - What It Is and Other Stories. 2003 Shefa Amr: Dar Al Mashreq

Only, Nazareth, 2006.

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