Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1919–1994) was a Palestinian author of Syriac-Orthodox origin born in Bethlehem at the time of the British Mandate . Educated in Jerusalem and, later, at Cambridge University , he settled in Iraq following the events of 1948. Poet, novelist, translator and literary critic, he has also translated some English works into Arabic , including James Frazer 's The Golden Bough and some of the work of T. He has produced around 70 books consisting of novels and translated material, and his own work has been translated into more than twelve languages.

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1919–1994) ( Arabic : جبرا ابراهيم جبرا) was a Palestinian author of Syriac-Orthodox origin born in Bethlehem at the time of the British Mandate . Educated in Jerusalem and, later, at Cambridge University , he settled in Iraq following the events of 1948. Poet, novelist, painter, translator and literary critic, he has also translated some English works into Arabic , including James Frazer 's The Golden Bough and some of the work of T.

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (28 August 1920 – 12 December 1994 ) ( Arabic : جبرا ابراهيم جبرا) was a Palestinian / Iraqi Syriac-Orthodox author , poet, artist and intellectual, born in Bethlehem at the time of the British Mandate . Educated in Jerusalem and, later, at Cambridge University , he settled in Iraq following the events of 1948 . He worked across many creative fields - as an artist, art critic, art historian, poet and intellectual. He is one of the pioneers of the Hurufiyya movement , which sought to combine traditional Islamic art within contemporary works by integrating Arabic script into artworks.

Palestinian writer and translator (1920–1994) Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (28 August 1919 – 12 December 1994 ) ( ) was an Iraqi - Palestinian author, artist and intellectual born in Adana in French-occupied Cilicia to a Syriac Orthodox Christian family. His family survived the Seyfo Genocide and fled to the British Mandate of Palestine in the early 1920s. Jabra was educated at government schools under the British-mandatory educational system in Bethlehem and Jerusalem , such as the Government Arab College , and won a scholarship from the British Council to study at the University of Cambridge . Following the events of 1948 , Jabra fled Jerusalem and settled in Baghdad , where he found work teaching at the University of Baghdad . In 1952 he was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities fellowship to study English literature at Harvard University . Over the course of his literary career, Jabra wrote novels, short stories, poetry, criticism, and a screenplay. He was a prolific translator of modern English and French literature into Arabic. Jabra was also an enthusiastic painter, and he pioneered the Hurufiyya movement , which sought to integrate traditional Islamic art within contemporary art through the decorative use of Arabic script.