Salman Natour
Born in Daliet Al-Karmel on 3 July 1949 to a Druze family; received a BA in Philosophy from Haifa University in 1976; was Secretary of the Golan Heights Solidarity Committee in the 1980s; was put under restriction of movement and not allowed to leave Israel in 1982;
Worked as Cultural Editor of Al-Jadid, an Arabic language cultural magazine; was a Board member of Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (2000-2001) and serves on its Board of Directors since 2003;
Member of the Committee of Palestinian and Israeli Writers Against Occupation and for Peace; works as author and playwright; serves as Director of the Emil Tuma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa; editor of Madar, an Arabic language journal published by the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies in Ramallah;
Has written over 25 books as well as plays and translated Hebrew Literature into Arabic; his publications include We Did Not Forget the Old Man’s Story (Arabic, 1983), Did You Kill Anyone There? (Arabic, 1999), and three anthologies of short stories and poetry. |
