Anton Shammas

Anton Shammas was born in 1950 in the Christian village of Fassouta, in western Galilee, to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother, and left at the age of twelve for Haifa, where he attended a Jewish and Arab high school. He studied English and Arabic literature and art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, edited until 1976 the Arabic literary journal Al-Sharq and published poems in Arabic and Hebrew. A translator of Emile Habibi into Hebrew, he left Israel in 1987 and teaches comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

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• NovelArabesquesערבסקותAnton Shammas · 1986Literature