Ziyad Abdel Fattah
Ziyad Jamil Abdel Fattah is a Palestinian politician, writer, journalist and novelist, born in Tulkarm, Palestine. He is one of the leaders of the Fatah movement, founder of the Palestinian News Agency, a member of the Palestinian National Council in the Palestine Liberation Organization for several sessions, and the former president of Federation of Arab News Agencies, the Palestinian General Authority for Consultations, and the Palestinian National Library. Abdel Fattah was very close to late president Yasser Arafat, and he witnessed all the events on his side. Abdel Fattah has been dubbed "the legend of the Palestinian revolution media."
Personal life
Ziyad Jamil Abdel Fattah was born in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank on March 3, 1939. he received his primary, preparatory and secondary education in the schools of his city, Tulkarm, and finished high school in the ancient Al-Fadhilia school in the city. He obtained a diploma in education and psychology, and worked as a teacher for three years in a number of schools. Later on, he moved to Kuwait where he worked as a teacher for five years, and the Fatah movement emerged in that period. Abdel Fattah joined the movement, and the Palestinian leadership asked him in the year 1968 to go to Egypt to establish "al-Asifah Radio" in Cairo.During working in Cairo, Ziyad joined Ain Shams University with to major in law, where he graduated and obtained a university degree later in 1975. In 1971 he founded Daraa Radio in Syria, nine months later he moved to Beirut, where he established the Palestinian News Agency
Abdel Fattah participated in a large number of international and cultural conferences, including the Cairo International Book Fair. In addition, he visited most countries of the world during his literary and media work. He also served as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Lotus speaking on behalf of the Asia and Africa Writers Union for five years. He is one of the founders of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists, and a member of the General Secretariat of the Union of Arab Journalists.
Works
- A Private Communiqué of an Ordinary Man a collection of stories, issued in 1976.
- Moon on Beirut a collection of short stories, 1982, published by Dar Al-Awda.
- A Black Cat in the Last Street published in 1984.
- White Teeth issued in 1986.
- Farewell Maryam issued on January 1, 1992, by Ibn Rushd Publishing House in Beirut.
- The Crossing a novel, published in 2002, by Dar Al-Hilal Printing Press in Cairo.
- What We Have is a novel, published in 2004 by Dar Al-Hilal in Cairo.
- House of the Army a novel, published in 2010, Cairo.
- Silk Paper a novel, published in 2014, by Merit Publishing House in Cairo.
- The Sea Gets Angry a collection of short stories, 2014, by the Shepherds Publishing House.
- Displaced Villages a book published in 2015.
- Al-Ratno, a novel, was published on December 12, 2017, by Kol Shay Publishing house, in the presence of the Palestinian Minister of Culture Ihab Bseiso, and it is 324 pages long.
- Diamond Polisher a book published in 2019, by Kol Shay Publishing House. The book consists of 308 pages. Abdel Fattah revealed information published for the first time about his close friend, the poet Mahmoud Darwish. It is reported that Abdel Fattah wrote all the speeches of President Yasser Arafat accompanied by Mahmoud Darwish.