Sector : Cultural Figures , Writers

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• Country of residence: Palestine

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1904

• Age: 121

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was a Palestinian writer , translator , teacher , and academic from Jerusalem . He was a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo , the Iraqi Scientific Academy, and the Islamic Research Academy affiliated with Al-Azhar .  He is best known for his novel , Memoirs of a Chicken . 

His biography

He was born in Jerusalem to the Husseini family in 1904 and studied at the Rashidieh School , then moved to the Salahiyya College , then the Frere School , and then to the English College , from which he graduated with a high school diploma.  In 1923, he moved to Cairo , where he enrolled at the American University in Cairo , graduating in 1925 with a diploma in journalism. He returned to Jerusalem and worked as a teacher at the Rashidieh School and the Arab College  for two years, but he soon returned to Cairo and enrolled in the Faculty of Arts at the American University , obtaining a BA in Arts in 1929. During his stay in Cairo, he met a number of prominent intellectuals, such as Taha Hussein , Mansour Fahmy , and Ali Abdel Razek  and was impressed by the Constitutional Liberal Party . 

After graduating, he enrolled at the Oriental Institute of the University of London and returned to Jerusalem in 1934 , having obtained a diploma in comparative Semitic languages and a doctorate for a thesis he wrote on Ibn Qutaybah under the supervision of the orientalist Hamilon Gibb . He initially taught briefly at the Rashidiyya School and then moved to the Arab College, where he worked for twelve years until he was appointed Senior Inspector of the Arabic Language in 1946 , a position he held until 1948 .

After the Nakba , he left for Beirut and worked as a professor at the American University of Beirut until 1955 , when he settled in Cairo and worked as a professor at the American University in Cairo, in addition to teaching at the Institute of Arab Research and Studies of the League of Arab States .

In 1961, he was elected a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo and the Iraqi Scientific Academy in Baghdad. In 1963, he was elected a member of the Islamic Research Academy affiliated with Al-Azhar . He lived in Cairo until 1973 , when he decided to return to Jerusalem , where he lived until his death in late 1990. 

His works

Cover of the first edition of Memoirs of a Chicken, presented by Taha Hussein .
He has published about twenty-three books, including authorship, translation, and investigation, on various topics. He has some books on teaching the Arabic language and writings on Orientalism, Islam, Arab nationalism, and Jerusalem, in addition to his novel, Memoirs of a Chicken  and a pioneering study on the Muslim Brotherhood movement entitled “The Muslim Brotherhood, the Largest Modern Islamic Movement.” 

Opinion on teaching the Arabic language, Jerusalem 1937.
Orientalists in England, Jerusalem 1940.
Memoirs of a Chicken, published by Dar Al Maaref, Cairo, in 1942. 
Easy Performances (2 parts), in collaboration with Fayez Al-Ghoul , Jerusalem 1945.
The Return of the Ship, Palestine Scientific Library, Jerusalem 1945.
The Art of Reciting Arabic Poetry (from French), in collaboration with Stephan Youssef Salem , Franciscan Press, Jerusalem, 1945.
Methods of Teaching Arabic Language - Jerusalem 1947.
Are writers human beings? Dar Al-Ilm Lil-Malayin, Beirut, 1950.
Ibn Qutaybah (PhD thesis in English), Jerusalem, 1950. Translated into Arabic.
Contemporary Literary Criticism in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century - Beirut 1950.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the largest modern Islamic movement - Beirut 1952.
The Crisis of Arab Thought - Beirut 1954.
Introduction to Contemporary Arabic Literature, Institute of Arab Studies, Cairo, 1963.
Literature and Arab Nationalism - Cairo 1967.
The Arabism of Jerusalem in Islam - Cairo - 1967.
Arabism of Jerusalem, Beirut, 1969.
Introduction to the Study of Contemporary Arabic Literature - Cairo 1964.
Researches in the Past and Present of Muslims - Cairo 1966.
Contemporary Arab Issues - Beirut 1978, Indexes of Noble Companionship - Jerusalem 1987.
Arabic writer Muhammad Is'af al-Nashashibi , Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi, Jerusalem 1987.
Khalil Sakakini, the modernist writer, Islamic Research Center, Jerusalem 1989.
Wardan Al-Wafi (joint), for children, Dar Al-Andalus, Jerusalem, 194.
Ahmed Al-Mudallal, A Children's Story, Al-Andalus Library, Jerusalem.

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