Personal Info
- Country of residence: Palestine
Information
Gharib Askalani (April 4, 1948 - June 21, 2022), whose real name is Ibrahim Abdel-Jabbar Al-Zant, is a Palestinian writer and novelist . He was President of the Palestinian Writers Union from 1987 to 2005 AD, and also participated in the Encyclopedia of Modern Palestinian Literature issued by the PROTA Project .
His life
Ibrahim Abdel-Jabbar Al-Zant was born in Majdal Ashkelon on April 4, 1948 AD. [2] His father worked as a trader in grains and food supplies. His family was displaced during the 1948 Nakba to the Beach Camp in Gaza City .
He received his primary education at the Hashem bin Abd Manaf (Hashemite) School, and the poet Hanna Farah was its director at that time. He also studied preparatory school at the New Gaza Refugee School in the Beach Camp, and completed his secondary studies from the Palestine School in 1965 AD. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Agriculture at Assiut University , then moved to Alexandria University , where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics in 1969 AD. The Israeli occupation refused to return Ibrahim to the Gaza Strip after the setback of 1967 , so he traveled to Jordan and joined the ranks of the Fatah movement in 1970 AD, and then moved to Syria , where he worked in the Euphrates Basin Investment Corporation in northern Syria.
He then returned to the Gaza Strip by requesting family reunification , and upon his return, he worked as a teacher for high school students from 1974 to 1994 AD. He obtained a postgraduate diploma from the Institute of Islamic Research and Studies in Cairo in 1983 AD.
After the signing of the Oslo Accords and the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority , he worked as director of literary creativity in the Palestinian Ministry of Culture .He was also the media spokesman for the Palestine International Book Fair, director of the Cultural Media Department, and participated in many cultural activities in Palestine and abroad, and represented Palestine in the Palestinian Spring of Culture season. In Paris in 1997 AD. He also participated in a series of volunteer work since 1976 AD, which was organized by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society with many municipalities and universities in the West Bank and the 1948 territories. He was also president of the Palestinian Writers Union from 1987 to 2005 AD.
Ibrahim participated with short stories in more than one joint collection in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish, as well as in the Encyclopedia of Modern Palestinian Literature in the United States in Arabic and English, issued by the PROTA Project , and supervised by Dr. Salma Al-Khadraa Al-Jayousi .
He won the Short Story Award from Bethlehem University in 1977, and the Short Story Award from the Palestinian Writers Union . [2] President Mahmoud Abbas also awarded him the Palestinian Order of Culture, Science and Arts, “Innovation” degree, in 2016 AD.
It is also mentioned that he chose his literary name, Gharib Askalani ; Because he was born in the city of Ashkelon, he is an Ashkelon, and he is a stranger because he was displaced with his family during the Nakba.
His works
He published a number of novels, including:
“The Ring Novel”
“Attention Time” in 1996 AD.
“Najma Al-Nawati” in 1999 AD.
“Dry Throat” 1999 AD.
“The Dust Time of Damus” in 2001 AD.
“Nights of the Lunar Months” in 2001 AD.
“The Return of Mansour Al-Lidawi” in 2002 AD.
“White Times” in 2005 AD.
“The Banks of Bouh” in 2006 AD.
“The White Princess” in 2007 AD.
“Mazyouna Sons” in 2009.
“Have You Seen the Shadow of My Death” in 2011 AD.
“The Forgotten” in 2016 AD.
He also published a number of stories, including:
“Breaking Silence” in 1979 AD.
“A Collection of Stories about Rosebuds,” 1991 AD.
“The Seagull Goes North,” 1996 AD.
“Gazelle of the Wave” in 2003 AD.
“Playing an Old String” in 2005 AD.
“The Taste of Sleep” in 2010.
In addition to a book containing his complete short story works in 2018 AD, which includes “The First Mirrors, Maqamat Al-Wajd, Playing the Eighth String, and Singing to a Distant Moon.”
Around him
A number of studies and research have been published on Gharib Askalani and his literature, including:
“The Strange World of Asqalani, the Novelist” by Siham Abu Al-Omrain, published by Samir Mansour Library for Printing, Publishing and Distribution in 2018 AD. [5] ( ISBN 9789950043114 )
“Women, Love and Ideology: In the Creative Experience of Ghareeb Asqalani” was published by Khalil Ibrahim Hassouna by Dar Al-Kalima Publishing and Distribution Library in 2018 AD. [6] ( ISBN 9789950399105 )
“Manifestations of Narrative in Strange Asqalani Literature” was published by Abdul Rahim Hamdan by Samir Mansour Library for Printing, Publishing and Distribution in 2021 AD. ( ISBN 9789950043114 )
His death
He died in Gaza City on June 21, 2022 AD, corresponding to Dhul-Qi'dah 22, 1443 AH, at the age of 74, after a struggle with illness.
The Palestinian Ministry of Culture and the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Writers mourned him , as it was stated in a statement by the General Secretariat of the Union, “ Today, one of the adults who walked the history of pain and pain of the Palestinian Ayyubids is absent from the worldly and literary scene since the clouds of birth opened for him, to suffer refuge from his first months, and to love a refugee in the wilderness.” Distress and breathing challenge with the roar of the sea waves in the Gaza Strip, and he did not rely on the postulates of apostasy and the oppression of the situation, but rather he took from his will repeated hardness until he finished his studies on a promise and a date between him and himself, so he carried the homeland in his travels and trips, and lived longing to carry him to the ink of expression, after he had The soul was overflowing with its stores and his huge questions about him and his family and people who live outside the country in the heart of a growing exile.
Ibrahim Al-Zant, who was absent an explicit name to protect the novel from the oppression and power of the occupier, remained in the shadows so that Gharib Asqalani appeared and spread like the sun that appeared over Al-Bayda as the Sultana of all time. Few people know “Ibrahim Al-Zant,” and most of those who lived with him know him as “Gharib Asqalani,” and what is the first? The guerrilla in order for Al-Mazyouna to pass and end the fire of its enlightenment for the tribes returning to Al-Majdal, and the second is only the guerrilla who masked his faith and the right of his ancestors to dig his biography in the oysters of life, before the seas of his soul dried up in existence. »
Source
Achievements and Awards
- Years in active
: From
To