Ahmad Harb

Ahmad Harb was a Palestinian writer and novelist. He was the chairman of the judging committee for the State of Palestine Awards in Literature, Arts and Humanities for the year 2019.

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Biography

Harb was born in Ad-Dhahiriya, Hebron Governorate, Palestine, on 25 November 1951. He was educated at University of Jordan, where he was awarded a Bachelor of English literature in 1974. He then obtained master's and PhD from University of Iowa. He worked at Birzeit University in 1987 and The Independent Commission for Human Rights in 2006.

Works

He published more than 5 novels, including:Ḥikāyat ʻĀʼid, 1981Ismāʻīl, 1987al-Jānib al-ākhar lʼrḍ al-maʻād, 1994Baqāyā, 1997al-Ṣuʻūd ilá al-miʼdhanah, 2008Mwāqd al-dhikrá, 2023