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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Marwan Abdel Rahim Al-Allan (1952) is a Palestinian poet, painter, and writer. He was born in Aqabat Jaber camp near Jericho and grew up there. He studied at the Teachers Institute in Irbid, specializing in art education. He worked as a teacher for six years. He was arrested for seven years, and after his release, he worked as a designer and painter at Al-Quds Open University . He has many poetry collections and writings.
His biography
Marwan Abdel Rahim Al-Alan was born in the year 1372 AH/1952 AD in the Aqabat Jabr Palestinian refugee camp near the city of Jericho and grew up there. He studied the first stages in camp schools affiliated with the International Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees, then in schools in the city of Jericho, and completed high school in Amman. Then he joined the Teachers Institute in Irbid, and specialized in art education.
He worked as a teacher for six years until he was arrested for seven years. After his release, he continued his literary and artistic life, and worked as an artistic designer and painter at Al-Quds Open University . From 1986 to 1992, he held seven art exhibitions in Amman and Damascus. He obtained a Diploma in Arts, a Bachelor’s in Arabic Language, and a Master’s in Islamic History from Birzeit University in Palestine, and a Doctorate in Islamic Civilization from the National University of Malaysia.
He worked as editor-in-chief and franchisee of “Tashkeel” magazine, which specializes in fine art affairs, and he is the owner of “Tashkeel Gallery.” He is a member of the Jordanian Writers Association , the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Writers , and the General Union of Palestinian Visual Artists.
His awards and honors
April 24, 2017: Philadelphia University Award for the best book in the field of humanities, for his book “Arab-Islamic Art.” The award was shared equally with Mufleh Al-Adwan.
His works
From his poetry collections:
“Jeronica”, 1981
“Palestinian Chandeliers”, 1983
“For Love and Freedom Too,” 1986
“Hymns by Omar bin Al-Khattab”, 1986
“The Lonely Returner,” a story and two poems, 1986
“Jezebel a Canaanite from the First Time,” 2017
from his books:
“From Istanbul to Athens,” observations of a traveler on a bicycle, 2008
“Women before Islam... Women after it,” 2012
“The Rock of Jerusalem,” a novel, 2016
“Arab-Islamic Art”, an applied philosophical and aesthetic reading, 2017
“From palm to abstraction”, an attempt to read ancient art and its relationship to modern arts, 2017
“European Painting in the Middle Ages: Style Changes in Ten Centuries,” 2018
“The Philosophy of Beauty in Arabic Ornaments”, 2018
“The Art of Photography in the Twentieth Century,” an aesthetic artistic study, 2018
“Sebastian Night”, novel, 2019
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