Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

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1919 – 1994

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Who was Jabra Ibrahim Jabra?

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra was a Palestinian author of Syriac-Orthodox origin born in Bethlehem at the time of the British Mandate. Educated in Jerusalem and, later, at Cambridge University, he settled in Iraq following the events of 1948.

Poet, novelist, translator and literary critic, he has also translated some English works into Arabic, including James Frazer's The Golden Bough and some of the work of T. S. Eliot. He has produced around 70 books consisting of novels and translated material, and his own work has been translated into more than twelve languages.

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Born
1919
Bethlehem
Education
  • University of Cambridge
Died
1994

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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