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Osama Fawzi is an American-Jordanian
journalist of Palestinian origin, and the founder of the Arab Times magazine,
which is published in the United States of America. He was born in 1949 in
Jordan, grew up and lived there until 1975, when he moved to work in the United
Arab Emirates, and then immigrated to America. He began writing in high school,
and his style was initially characterized by ordinary criticism, and he
developed into the stage of satirical literary and political criticism.
Foundation
Osama Fawzi was born in one of the
areas belonging to the Jordanian army in the city of Zarqa, to a family whose
roots go back to the town of Tarshiha in Palestine. He studied in the Jordanian
military culture schools and was the first in all the military culture schools
in the Kingdom in the general secondary exams. He continued his studies in the
Arabic language department at the University of Jordan. He graduated from it in
1973 and obtained a master's degree in journalism. After that, he worked as a
teacher in the schools of the Kingdom, then he obtained a work contract in the
Emirates and moved to it in 1975 and remained there until 1984, when he was
forced to leave abroad and settle in his travels in the United States, where he
resided in the city of Houston, located in the state of Texas, in the winter of
1984. Osama began in his stages The first was to write for Jordanian and Iraqi
magazines and newspapers such as Al-Turath Al-Shaabi magazine, Afaq and other
Iraqi newspapers, in which he continued to write until the time of his travel
to the United States of America. The late 1980s and early 1990s with a group of
articles that were published as cover topics, which was the reason for the fame
of the Surakia magazine. He continued to publish in Surakia until 1986, when he
established the Arab Times magazine.
His work is in the United Arab
Emirates
He moved to the Arab Emirates to
reside in the city of Al-Ain. He worked in teaching and journalism, and was
appointed head of the media department in the Curriculum Department. He
criticized the educational curricula used in the Emirates, where he dealt with
the shortcomings of Emirati education in more than thirty articles that he
published in some local and Gulf newspapers, and also mentioned the subject in an
interview. Because of his criticism, he was subjected to a transfer from the
head of the media department in the Educational Curriculum Department to a
teacher in an elementary school, and when he decided to resign, a decision came
to appoint him as a media advisor at the Emirates University, and the decision
came by the university director at the time, Muhammad Nuri, but the appointment
decision was not made. And Fawzi remained without an official job for a year,
as he was getting money for his writings in some Arab newspapers, especially
the Iraqi ones, then he was given 48 hours to leave the Emirates, which forced
him to immigrate to the United States of America. Osama published his
experience in the Emirates in a book entitled (Ten Years of Journalism in the
Al Nahyan Species).
fight it
Osama Fawzi mentioned that he was
subjected to many pressures that amounted to an attempted physical
assassination, and among these pressures, everything he had collected for five
years of his work in the United Arab Emirates was stolen and accused by the
Emirati intelligence, as well as he was beaten in the office of one of his
friends by a person who had asked a friend Doctor to bring him together. He was
defamed by a Jordanian newspaper, where he was accused of being a spy of Jewish
origin. In his place of residence in the city of Houston, he was subjected to
an assassination attempt in 1998 at eight o'clock in the evening, but the one
who was injured was his son Nidal, who was driving the car instead of him.
His writings
He authored many printed and
unprinted books and a large number of articles in which he spoke in a sarcastic
manner and documented them in documents, some of which he obtained and others
through his personal experience, as he was an eyewitness to them. Among his
books:
books
critical opinions. The Economic
Press, Amman, Jordan 1974, in which he analyzed the Jordanian critical period,
issues of contemporary Jordanian poetry, the Jordanian theater, the Jordanian
short story, and the subject of Tayseer Spool's suicide.
Articles in Literary Criticism - Dar
Al-Jahiz - Baghdad - 1979.
An Introduction to the Jordanian
Short Story - Beirut - Fikr Publications - 1981.
Articles on Folklore in the Emirates
- Abu Dhabi - 1981.
Traditional Medicine in the Emirates
- Al Ain - 1981.
Ten years in the Al Nahyan rackets -
London - 1991.
Memoirs of a Tramp - London.
Ten years of journalism in the Al
Nahyan clubs 1993 - London.
Thoughts of a former Jordanian
citizen. A huge book consisting of 94 chapters dealing with political matters.
Memoirs of an eyewitness in the
Emirates. A book of 39 chapters dealing with some of his personal experience
during the period he resided in the Arab Emirates.
Palestinian concerns. A book of 49
chapters in which he talks about matters related to Palestine and the
Palestinian cause in its social, cultural and political forms.
Articles on religion... and the
world. A book consisting of 31 chapters in which he talks about his opinion on
some religious issues and fatwas issued by clerics.
Why did you decide to immigrate to
America? A book of 23 chapters that talks about the reasons for the writer's
emigration, his experience, and his comparison between the country in which he
was residing and the new country of residence.
Hashemites and women. A book of 21
chapters that talks about some family relationships in the royal family in
Jordan.
Rulers and women
Short works in the form of separate
articles
Recalling the popular heritage in
Emirati literary works.
Arab cultural magazines prevailed and
then vanished.
The other side of Dr. Issa Al-Naouri
in his letters to Osama Fawzi.
Drama of the literary movement in
Jordan.
A reading in Diwan Six Attias by Dr.
Fawaz Touqan.
Reading in the book Three Signs by
Farouk Wadi.
Reading in Sakakini book by Youssef
Haddad.
A reading in Al-Ghajar's Diwan by
Ali Foda.
A reading in “A Mustachioed Cat
Named Reese.”
Reading and presentation of the book
“Songs of Labor and Workers in Palestine.”
Presentation and criticism of “The
Intellectual Conflict in Syrian Literature” by Anton Saadeh.
Theater in the Emirates.
The drama of the literary movement
in the Emirates.
Between the stories of Samhan and
the songs of Soudah.
Drama of the literary movement in
Jordan.
Arab cultural magazines prevailed
and then vanished.
Theatrical movement in the Emirates
and the media.
The other side of Dr. Issa Al-Naouri
in his letters to Osama Fawzi.
On writers' suicide.
Folded pages of literature Tasalak.
Reading critical books about the
Palestinian novel.
Introduction to Plagiarism.
political song.
Literary and cultural publications
in the Emirates.
Al-Babous in Language and
Literature.
Youth literature in the Emirates.
Presentation of a book by Abdul Aziz
al-Maqaleh.
Criticism of the book “On Literature
and Criticism” by Ibrahim Khalil.
Presentation of the book "How
to Reconsider Chebbi".
On the authority of the writer Adnan
Ali Khaled.
The art of satire and the story of
the "Endbury" collection.
Defamation of literary criticism.
Folk medicine in the Emirates.
confrontation.
A lesson in language and grammar on
Al-Fuss and Nabil Shaath.
Educational studies.
Articles 1979 - 1986
Articles and educational studies
written by Osama Fawzi between 1979 and 1986 and published in several Arab
newspapers and magazines, as well as presented on television programmes:
How is teacher competence measured?
Arabic reading books for primary
grades.
Read the first educational study of
its kind.
Extracurricular Activity Materials -
Introduction.
Extra-curricular activity materials
(definition).
Private lessons are an educational
disease.
Educational policy project (first
episode).
Educational policy project (second
episode).
Curriculum development.
An educational book sounds the
alarm.
of teaching methods in the UAE.
of teaching methods in the UAE.
Children's journalism between
reality and ambition.
The phenomenon of leakage among
students.
Administrative foundations of
educational training programs.
reading skills
Thoughts about kindergarten.
Conflict between mentors and
teachers.
Comprehensive school.
About Al-Ghazali.
Educational theory of Ibn Khaldun.
Adult education and literacy.
Objectives of teaching Arabic at the
primary stage.
Objectives of teaching Arabic in the
preparatory stage.
Objectives of teaching Arabic at the
secondary level.
The objectives of teaching the
Arabic language and the paradoxes of the linguistic term.
Value orientation in Arabic
textbooks.
One of the dangers of patching
school books in the Emirates.
School press.
The dilemma of spelling in curricula
and textbooks.
Lexicon of Arabic reading by Nimr
Sarhan.
Educational public opinion in the
Arab world.
History science in textbooks.
Hamza problem.
Employing the tale and language
dictionaries in the primary stage.
Child psychology in kindergarten.
Sandwich breeding.
Poor academic achievement.
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