Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra was born in 1919 in Adana, into a Syriac Orthodox family that moved to Bethlehem in the early twenties. Educated in Jerusalem, Exeter and then Cambridge, he taught English in Jerusalem, left in 1948 for Baghdad, where he lived until his death, and spent time at Harvard. A novelist, poet, critic and painter, he translated Shakespeare, Wilde and Faulkner into Arabic. He died in Baghdad in 1994; his house there was destroyed in 2010, along with his letters and paintings.

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• NovelIn Search of Walid Masoudالبحث عن وليد مسعودJabra Ibrahim Jabra · 1978Literature