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Tayseer Sboul

Died in 1973

Tayseer Sboul was born on 15 January 1939 in Tafila, in Transjordan. He studied philosophy at the American University of Beirut, then law in Damascus, and was a lawyer in Zarqa. He then became a producer, writer and host of a radio programme devoted to Arab and Jordanian writers, and also wrote short stories and poems. He died in Amman on 15 November 1973, aged thirty-four; an annual literary prize bears his name.

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