Sami Michael

Sami Michael, born Kamal Salah in Baghdad on 15 August 1926, joined the clandestine communist opposition at fifteen and had to flee an arrest warrant in 1948; he passed through Iran and reached Israel in 1949. Settled in Haifa, in Wadi Nisnas, he first wrote in Arabic in the communist press, then for many years was an employee of the hydrological service in the north of the country. He rendered Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy into Hebrew, chaired the Association for Civil Rights in Israel from 2001, and died in Haifa on 1 April 2024.

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• NovelA Trumpet in the Wadiחצוצרה בוואדיSami Michael · 1987Literature