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Abdulla Issa

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  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1964
  • Age: 58
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Abdullah Issa is a poet, academic, diplomat, political analyst, director and film producer, winner of many prestigious Arab and international awards. He is considered one of the most prominent Arab poets since the mid-1980s, as he was called by many titles, including Palestine poet in exile.

 

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Abdullah Issa is a creative Palestinian poet, distinguished by his presentation of the Palestinian cause in poetry and narration as an aesthetic issue based on peace, coexistence and love in the face of the occupation’s inherent legitimacy on erasure and relegation. Also, every poetic achievement he writes is unlike any of his completed collections.

 

The poet Abdullah Issa was born on January 15, 1964 in Babila camp near Yarmouk camp near Damascus in Syria, into a family that sought refuge in Syria after the conquest of Palestine during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

 

The narrators mention that his father, Mahmoud Issa, took refuge as a boy from the village of Kurds Al-Ghanama in the district of Safad (historians report the presence of the Kurds in Palestine that Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi kept them there after his victory over the Crusaders to defend it) in the district of Safad, and his mother Fawzia Al-Hassan is from Al-Manshiyya in the outskirts of Acre. Following the death of his father in 1987, the poet was forced to support a family consisting of his mother, 13 brothers, and his paternal grandmother, Saada al-Nimr. He worked in the Palestinian cultural press in Syria, such as Al-Hurriya and Al-Ghadd Al-Jadeed magazine, between 1984 and 1989, the year he left Syria for the Soviet Union. Although the family house preserved only two books: the Noble Qur’an and the Diwan of Mahmoud Darwish, it preserved several parts of the Noble Qur’an, and tens of classical Arabic poetry. The dynasty’s conversations about Palestine and the suffering of the Nakba, and the rise of the Palestinian revolution from the Palestinian pain, in addition to the presence of the symbolic figure Yasser Arafat in his life, shaped the poet’s awareness, and motivated his creative faculties to write new, distinct and different poetry from the beginning. The poet had gifted the late leader Arafat with several creative texts.

 

In 1983, he won the Arab Poetry Prize, which was held in Syria, and motivated critics to turn around for his talent, to read and write about his creations, and during this period he won many awards and appreciation.

 

In 1990, he joined the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow, and from 1993 to 2004 he worked as a program producer at Voice of Russia Radio, where he presented the most important Arab and Russian creations, and translated the most important Russian poets into Arabic, and Arabs into Russian, and his program “Abdullah Issa Cultural Café” won » on wide fame. Author of programs on Russian and Arab culture.

 

In 1994 he was editor of the literary magazine "Poets". In 1995 he graduated from the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature with a class "Poetry". In 2001, he defended his thesis at the Institute of Asian and African Countries on "Means of Artistic Expression of New Arabic Poetry: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century". In 2002, he became an academic at the Eurasia Academy at UNESCO. Since 1998 he has served as the Secretary General of the Arab International Federation of Journalists and Writers.

 

Since 2003, he has managed several news agencies, television stations and a political analyst in the Russian and Arab worlds.

 

But the request and approval of the Russian Foreign Ministry to negotiate with the hostage takers at the Beslan School in North Ossetia in 2004, as he witnessed the human pain again, which he witnessed in the massacres committed against the Palestinians inside the homeland and the diaspora, left a deep impact, so he produced and directed several films Documentary, as well as his poetry and narration.

 

Between 2005 and 2009, he also worked as a producer for a series of documentaries for Al Jazeera Television Network (Their Archives, Our History, and Appointment with Exile). From 2007 to 2009, he also held the position of bureau chief for the Arab News Agency.

 

He also produced in 2010 "The Death Test", which reveals the process of testing the Israeli nuclear bomb in South Africa in the early eighties of the last century, and starred the Hollywood star and world fistfight champion Oleg Taktarov, as well as the movie "Tehran 34", which tracks the assassination attempt on Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. It was directed by Hitler, and starred the well-known star Valery Nikolaev. The two films were shown in several Russian and foreign stations.

 

He also produced and directed a series of films "Muslims are proud of Russia" in 2012, the most important of which are: "The Road to Mecca", "Breaking Time", "An Hour of a Star", and "From the Nile to the Neva". These films were presented in special shows, and were shown in Many Arab and foreign festivals and stations.

 

In 2013, he directed and produced the film “And We Love Life” with executive producer Ramil Khairulin and photographer Alexander Koshelev, which was shown in Moscow and other capitals and cities, and at many international festivals. Mahmoud Darwish and Naji Al-Ali, talking about the dream of the Palestinian child in Gaza under siege.

 

With the eruption of transformations that swept the Arab world and showing a state of regression to the past and the emergence of chaos in its head, and the outbreak of fighting on sectarian, sectarian and other grounds, especially in 2013, he was busy presenting the “Abdullah Issa Café” program live, where he met with the symbols of Arab cultural action and presented their visions In the face of the killing and destruction that engulfed several Arab countries. At the end of 2015, he joined the Palestinian diplomatic corps to be appointed as an official spokesman at the Embassy of the State of Palestine in the Russian Federation. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas awarded the Palestinian poet Abdullah Issa the Medal of Culture, Science and Arts - Innovation Level “in appreciation of his poetic creativity, his active presence in the Arab cultural scene and his definite role in documenting Palestinian and Russian relations, and his service to our Palestinian cause intellectually and behaviorally” in the same year.

 

He was also chosen by the World Literature Fund as Person of the Year 2015 in “Dialogue of Civilizations and Bringing Cultures Together.”

his poems

1987 - The dead prepare for the funeral

1995 - Haze' (in Russian)

  1996 - Ala

  1998 - First Sky Ink

2000 - Resurrection of the Walls

2013 - Shepherds of Heaven, Shepherds of Oleander

2014 - My brothers, my father, not the wolf

2017 - Fawzia Al Hassan's Ten Commandments

written by

1987 - A poetic vision. Study

2018 - Anthology of Russian poetry. Translation

2019 - Word and Spirit in Contemporary Poetics. study

Achievements and Awards

Most important awards and achievements

2017 - In June, he was chosen as a guest, among three poets around the world, along with Taiwanese Tzimen Tsai and Poland's Lisa Seget, in the book "The Year of the Poet", which was published in English in the United States by Inner Child Publishing, whose CEO is the poet William Peters.

2015 - The World Literature Fund selected him as Person of the Year in the “Dialogue of Civilizations and the Convergence of Cultures”.

2015 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas awarded him the Medal of Culture, Science and Arts - innovation level.

1999-2002 - President of the International Federation of Arab Writers and Journalists in Russia.

2001 - Member of the "Asia and Africa" Academy of UNESCO.

2001-1996 - Assistant Professor at Moscow University - Institute of Asian and African Literatures.

1995 - «Master of Arts» - Maxim Gorky Institute of Creativity of the International Association of Writers' Unions in general.

1985 - Member of the Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists.

1985 - First prize in the Arab Poetry Festival.

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