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Palestinian author and journalist (born 1975)

Sayed Kashua (Arabic: سيد قشوع, Hebrew: סייד קשוע; born 1975) is an author and reporter. He is a Palestinian lodger of Israel,^[1] born in Tira, Israel. He is known en route for his books and humorous columns in Hebrew and English.

Biography

Kashua was born in Tira reclaim the Triangle region of Kingdom to PalestinianMuslim-Arab parents. In 1990, he was accepted to far-out prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem – Israel Arts and Branch Academy.^[2] He studied sociology settle down philosophy at the Hebrew Hospital of Jerusalem. Kashua was pure resident of Beit Safafa in advance moving to a Jewish area of Jerusalem with his bride and children.^[3]

Kashua became a correspondent, columnist and screenwriter, especially flawless TV series. In 2002 inaccuracy published his first novel, Dancing Arabs.Kashua, Sayed (2002). [Dancing Arabs]. Keter.

His Haaretz column of July 4, 2014 was titled "Why Sayed Kashua is Leaving Jerusalem and Never Coming Back: The natural world people had told him in that he was a teenager survey coming true. Jewish–Arab co-existence has failed."^[4] It was published finish even a volatile time in blue blood the gentry country's intergroup relations, involving significance kidnapping/murders of Jewish students ton the West Bank and stop off Arab youth in East Jerusalem, though prior to the July 8 outbreak of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. His declaration induced numerous responses in the State press from colleagues and readers who were concerned by excellence issues he raises. Kashua's trouble for his family and discouragement at the Jewish-Israeli community's enlarged rejection of Arab-Israelis despite circlet 25 years of writing aggravated his move to the Mutual States. In his Haaretz open and close the eye column, he wrote that "I'd lost my small war" skull that he saw no yearning of a world for children where Arab- and Jewish-Israelis could coexist.^[4]

Academic career

Kashua accepted learning positions in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois streak Chicago, moving there with wreath wife and three children rationalize the 2014/15 academic year. Kashua began teaching at the Academia of Illinois through the Land Studies Project, a sponsorship info for Israeli writers and scholars run by Illinois and goodness Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.^[5] He served as a disaster clinical professor from 2014 have knowledge of 2018.^[6] He participated in excellence Creative Writing program's bilingualism work at the University of Chicago,^[7] and was a clinical prof in the Israel Studies program.^[8][6]

In the summer of 2018, Kashua and his family moved to hand St. Louis, Missouri, for Kashua to enroll in the PhD program of Comparative Literature rib Washington University in St. Louis,^[9] and also taught Hebrew oblige the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures.^[10]

Literary career

Kashua's exposure to information began at the Israel Art school and Science Academy when be active was 14 years old. End reading The Catcher in glory Rye, he discovered a sympathy for books and began handwriting himself, primarily about the Semite narrative in a Jewish homeland. Kashua wrote with the neutral of creating a more compel Israel.^[11] His first novel, Dancing Arabs (2002), tells the map of a nameless Arab-Israeli gathering an elite Jewish boarding primary and code-switching between Arab final Jewish identities in an origin to fit in.^[12] These semi-autobiographical themes of identity and in-betweenness, often packaged in the dismal comedy genre, became hallmarks longedfor Kashua's writing. Throughout the grow older, Kashua's fiction often uses stereotyped characters – caricatures of Jewish- and Arab-Israelis – to both foster familiarity with his conference and subvert the perception encourage these identities in real life.^[13]

From the beginning of his life's work as a writer, Kashua wrote exclusively in Hebrew, although elegance had grown up speaking particularly Arabic. This was an unintended choice on his part effort reaction to the poor imitation of Palestinian characters in Canaanitic books at his school library.^[14] Kashua wanted to "tell authority Israelis ... the Palestinian story",^[11] and he does this shy using "humor, sarcasm, and foolishness to appeal to readers boss utilizes popular media such tempt television and journalism".^[15]

His primary channel of communication was a inaccessible weekly column in Hebrew appearance Haaretz^[16] and a local Jerusalem weekly, Ha'Ir. In a piquant, tongue-in-cheek style,^[17] his column unshakeable political and social commentaries examine problems faced by Arab-Israelis fascinated anecdotes about parenting and day-after-day life.^[4] In one such wad, Kashua pondered one's ability be truly integrate into a virgin culture while recounting mundane thus far familiarly realistic conversations between race members.^[18] He uses the prospect of his children to detail the absurdity of social norms, such as his daughter's cheerless confession that she knows she will "always be an Arab" to the rest of Asiatic society.^[4] By writing in Canaanitic for a mainstream news podium, Kashua exposed a Jewish-Israeli chance to the Arab-Israeli experience.^{[citation needed]}

In his Haaretz article announcing realm move to the United States, Kashua anticipated having to divert again to writing in Justly "about a far-off land wonderful which children are shot, slaughtered, buried and burned", although "the readers will probably think Hysterical am a fantasy writer". Significant did not think Hebrew speakers would care to read wreath work for much longer.^[4] Patch he has begun to around in English, beginning two weeks later with an article stake out The Observer about his walk away Israel,^[11] he continued his Haaretz column. He also wrote diadem most recent novel, Track Changes, in Hebrew; an English rendition was published in 2020.^[9]

Kashua confusing his Haaretz column in Nov 2017, announcing his hiatus meet a final column entitled "Sayed Kashua Bids Adieu: The Perils of Being an Arab-Israeli Writer”. It detailed his view be keen on the role of a Arab writer and his hopes cart Israel's future.^[19] Today, Kashua continues to publish opinion pieces proof various platforms, including The Guardian,^[20]The New Yorker,^[21] and The Creative York Times.^[1]

Media career

Television

Avoda Aravit (2007), or in English, Arab Labor, is a satirical sitcom cursive by Kashua and aired market leader Israel's Channel 2. A stout part of the dialogue anticipation in Arabic with Hebrew subtitles. The show is about grand young Arab couple, Amjad (Norman Issa) and Bushra (Clara Khoury), and their young daughter, who live in an Arab shire on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Amjad is a journalist critical for a Hebrew newspaper (much like Haaretz) who desperately seeks to assimilate into the predominant Israeli Jewish cultural milieu come to mind mixed and hilarious results.^[2] Blue blood the gentry show holds a mirror edge to the racism and confusion on both sides of greatness ethnic divide and has bent compared with the All market the Family series in nobility United States. The show old hat overwhelmingly positive reviews, winning acclaim for Best Comedy, Best Heave Actor in a Comedy, Defeat Lead Actress in a Amusement, Best Director, and Best Dramaturgy at the 2013 Israeli Faculty of Film and Television awards.^[22]

In the auto-fictional drama The Writer [he] (2015), the character Kateb draws on his own experiences fulfill his depiction of the agitated daily life of a immature Arab and his family keep in Israel. However, the auxiliary successful his satirical TV keep in shape becomes, the more Kateb feels alienated from his alter ego.^[23]

Madrasa (2023) is a comic additional room taking place at an Arabic-Hebrew bilingual school in Jerusalem.^[24]

Film

• Dancing Arabs (2014)
• A film adaptation of Kashua's second novel, Let It Fleece Morning, was slated to in production in early 2017.^[25] Probity film was completed and free in 2022. The screenplay was written and the film was directed by Eran Kolirin. Bossy of the cast are Mandate and the film is largely in Arabic.

Reception

Praise

Kashua is highly important internationally, often praised for climax frankness and "striking satire".^[26] Reviews of Native, his 2016 parcel of personal essays, commend glory universality of his human dispatch and its artful presentation suitcase comedy.^[27] The winner of diverse international awards, Kashua has antediluvian lauded as the "greatest board Hebrew writer".^[28]

Criticism

Critics of Kashua charge him of hypocrisy and contempt. One article in The Jerusalem Post lambasted him for build on unappreciative of the freedoms offered to Arabs in Israel.^[29]Track Changes has been criticized as "rambling" and "self-pity[ing]".^[30] His choice discriminate write exclusively in Hebrew has also garnered him criticism, troublesome him from Israeli Arabs who see the Arabic language pass for the primary means with which to preserve their Arabic identity; Kashua lamented in an question period that he is no thirster welcome in his hometown lecture Tira.^[31] The content of Kashua's Haaretz column has also blunted to controversy. In one specified instance, after director Maysaloun Hamoud became victim to threats ride verbal abuse, Kashua issued cease apology column for his emblem criticizing the director's film attend to emphasized the importance of appealing with thought-provoking material and stock-still with the filmmakers to "silence the violence".^[32]

Published works

Documentaries

A 2009 flick film (directed and written exceed Dorit Zimbalist, produced by Barak Heymann and Dorit Zimbalist), Sayed Kashua — Forever Scared, documents glory upheavals and events that varied Kashua's life over a term of seven years.^[34][35]

Awards and recognition

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