Yahya Yakhlif
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Yahya Yakhlif (born 1944) is a Palestinian
writer and a novelist. He was born in Samakh
, a Palestinian village that was abandoned during the Naqba in 1948, four years after Yakhlif's birth. Consequently, Yakhlif and his family became displaced refugees.
As an author, Yakhlif has published several novels and short story collections. His novel about the last days of Samakh, A Lake Beyond the Wind, was translated into English by Christopher Tingley and May Jayyusi and published by Interlink Books in 1998 in its Emerging Voices series. Ma' Al Sama, a more recent novel, also explores the condition of Palestinian exilehood. Ma' Al Sama was nominated for the 2009 Arabic Booker Prize.
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
writer and a novelist. He was born in Samakh
Samakh, Tiberias
Samakh was a Palestinian Arab village located at the southern end of the Lake Tiberias in Palestine . It had a population of 3,320 Arab Muslims and Arab Christians in 1945...
, a Palestinian village that was abandoned during the Naqba in 1948, four years after Yakhlif's birth. Consequently, Yakhlif and his family became displaced refugees.
As an author, Yakhlif has published several novels and short story collections. His novel about the last days of Samakh, A Lake Beyond the Wind, was translated into English by Christopher Tingley and May Jayyusi and published by Interlink Books in 1998 in its Emerging Voices series. Ma' Al Sama, a more recent novel, also explores the condition of Palestinian exilehood. Ma' Al Sama was nominated for the 2009 Arabic Booker Prize.