Born in Al-Thahiriyyah, near Hebron, in 1951; received a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Jordan, Amman, in 1974, an MA in English Literature from Roosevelt University, USA, in 1979, and a PhD in Comparative and English Literature from the University of Iowa, USA, in 1986; became an Associate Professor of English Literature at Birzeit University; later served as Dean at the university’s of the Faculty of Arts; worked also as novelist and writer and has published several books, incl. The Other Side of the Promised Land (1990), and The Remains (1997); among the signatories of a communiqué to the public titles No Retreat from our National Goals, published on 20 Dec. 2001; member of the Birzeit University Council in 2004/05.

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