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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Ghazi al-Jamal (1950-2010) is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, born in Gaza in 1950 after his family migrated to it from the village of Jamzo in the Lydda district. His father was a poet, writer and orator, who wrote and directed plays. The family emigrated in 1954 to Jordan, where his father worked as a teacher and then as a principal in the schools of Shouneh, Salt and Zarqa. He studied engineering and worked there, then worked in commerce. He died in Zarqa in 2010 of a heart attack.
Ghazi Al-Jamal received his school education in the city of Zarqa and finished high school. He then studied mechanical engineering in Yugoslavia, and obtained a master's degree in engineering at Yarmouk University in 1986.
He worked as an engineer in the Corporation for Telecommunications in 1989, then traveled to New York, where he worked in commerce for five years, after which he returned to Jordan.
Ghazi El-Gamal began his poetic attempts while he was a middle school student. His poetry collections are:
Firefly Tears, published in 1988.
"The Good Breath"
"The Throne Lanterns"
"Stand tall"
"word engineering"
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