Samih al-Qasim

Samih al-Qasim was born in 1939 in Zarqa, in Transjordan, where his father served as a captain in the frontier force and where officers lived with their families; his family were Druze from Rameh, a village in Galilee near Acre, and returned there soon afterwards. He remained in Israel after 1948, was a schoolteacher who was dismissed and then a journalist, and was imprisoned and placed under house arrest several times for his verse and his communist commitment. His work, translated into about ten languages, includes poems, plays, narratives and translations. He died in 2014.

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• Poetryمواكب الشمسSamih al-Qasim · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature