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Waleed Abu Bakr (born 1938) is a Palestinian literary critic, novelist, and journalist. He was born in Ya'bad and grew up there. He studied philosophy and worked in the field of social research and journalism. He is prominently active in the Arab cultural press as a cultural editor, literary critic, and editor-in-chief. He worked for a period of his life as a physics teacher at Ramallah High School. He is a member of the General Secretariat of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and the Literary Criticism Association. He lives in Ramallah. He is the author of several novels and literary studies, has translated several literary works, and is interested in translating children's literature as well.
His biography
Waleed Abu Bakr was born in the village of Ya`bad in the Jenin district of Mandatory Palestine in 1938 and grew up there. He received his primary and secondary education in its schools, then moved to the Teachers’ House in Amman. After his graduation, he moved to the city of Ramallah to work as a physics teacher for a secondary school from 1957 until 1959. Then he was arrested in Ramallah until 1960. After his release, he moved to Kuwait, and completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy and sociology at Beirut Arab University, and his postgraduate studies were at Kuwait University and in Philosophy of science.
He worked in the Kuwaiti press, starting as an editor, then head of a department, then editor-in-chief of a magazine. He published many critical articles in a number of Kuwaiti magazines, most notably “Al-Bayan.” He lived in Kuwait for nearly thirty years, then returned to his homeland and lived in Ramallah. There he worked as head of the Ugarit Cultural Center, continued his journalistic career and contributed to Al-Ayyam newspaper.
His writings
In April 2021, on the occasion of Palestinian Culture Day, the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Writers issued his “completed works of fiction.” These works include four novels: “Contagion, Threads, Hanuna, and Faces.” List of his books:
From his novels:
“Contagion”, 1978
“Threads”, 1980
“Al-Hanouna”, 1998
“Faces”, 2003
Among his works in criticism and studies are:
“The Social Issue in Kuwaiti Theater,” 1985
“Sorrows in the Spring of Oranges: A Study of Samira Azzam,” 1985.
“The Second Voice in the Kuwaiti Story,” 1985
“Reality and Challenge in the Occupied Territory Novel,” 1989
“The Environment in the Story of the Arabian Gulf,” 1991
“The Image of the Arab in Israeli Literature,” 1994
“Body Language on Stage,” 1999
Mood in the Literary Text and the Dangers of Normalization in the Palestinian Narrative,” 2014
“Manifestations of Reality in Narrative Art”
“Writing with the Flavor of Death,” a critical study, 2010
«The phenomenon of acculturation and its destructive effects on narrative - a new study on a different critical term, 2017
«The original idea - in the inner fabric of the novel, 2021
Among his literary translations:
“The Story of the Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God,” Stories, Etgar Keret, 2003
“Red Skies in the Morning,” a novel by Elizabeth Laird, 2003
“Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, Augusto Boal, 2006
“Prisoner of the Vikings,” Toril Thorstad Højer, Norwegian novel, 2005
“Birds of the Night,” Tormod Haugen, novel, 2005
“The Blizzard,” and. Owen, A Story for Children, 2004
“Goodbye, Ronna,” Marit Kaldhall, a children’s story, 2005
“The Boy Who Wanted to Own Snow,” Dag Heyerdahl Larsen, children’s story, 2007
“Election Day in the Savannah,” a story for children,
2007 Among his non-literary translations:
«History curricula in Israeli textbooks», 2005
“Legislative Theater”, Augusto Boal, 2010
“Sharpening Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Enhance Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving, 2016
“The haves and the have-nots; A brief and special history of global inequality,
2018
“The Good Day of Sorrows,” a collection of poetry, 1976
“The First and the Last,” two plays, 1982
“The Sword and the Pen,” a play, 2006
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