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Ghalib Halasa

Died in 1989

Ghalib Halasa was born in 1932 in Ma'in, near Madaba, and studied journalism at the American University of Beirut. A communist activist, imprisoned in Baghdad, he was exiled from Jordan in 1955, lived for more than twenty years in Cairo, where he worked for foreign news agencies, then was expelled from Egypt in 1976 and passed through Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. A novelist, critic and translator, he died in Damascus in 1989.

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