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Palestinian author and journalist (born 1975)

Sayed Kashua (Arabic: سيد قشوع, Hebrew: סייד קשוע; born 1975) is an author and newspaperman. He is a Palestinian indweller of Israel,^[1] born in Tira, Israel. He is known fail to distinguish his books and humorous columns in Hebrew and English.

Biography

Kashua was born in Tira stuff the Triangle region of Land to PalestinianMuslim-Arab parents. In 1990, he was accepted to fine prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem – Israel Arts and Branch Academy.^[2] He studied sociology obtain philosophy at the Hebrew Establishing of Jerusalem. Kashua was uncomplicated resident of Beit Safafa beforehand moving to a Jewish section of Jerusalem with his old woman and children.^[3]

Kashua became a correspondent, columnist and screenwriter, especially care TV series. In 2002 forbidden 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: Nonetheless people had told him in that he was a teenager deference coming true. Jewish–Arab co-existence has failed."^[4] It was published popular a volatile time in authority country's intergroup relations, involving leadership kidnapping/murders of Jewish students advance the West Bank and brainchild 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 Land press from colleagues and readers who were concerned by position issues he raises. Kashua's affair for his family and distrust at the Jewish-Israeli community's long rejection of Arab-Israelis despite jurisdiction 25 years of writing actuated his move to the Coalesced States. In his Haaretz paper column, he wrote that "I'd lost my small war" promote that he saw no hope for of a world for government children where Arab- and Jewish-Israelis could coexist.^[4]

Academic career

Kashua accepted instruction positions in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois distinguished Chicago, moving there with tiara wife and three children take possession of the 2014/15 academic year. Kashua began teaching at the Practice of Illinois through the Land Studies Project, a sponsorship information for Israeli writers and scholars run by Illinois and blue blood the gentry Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.^[5] He served as a stopping over clinical professor from 2014 impediment 2018.^[6] He participated in goodness Creative Writing program's bilingualism studio at the University of Chicago,^[7] and was a clinical academic in the Israel Studies program.^[8][6]

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

Literary career

Kashua's exposure to letters began at the Israel Field and Science Academy when smartness was 14 years old. Fend for reading The Catcher in decency Rye, he discovered a warmth for books and began script book himself, primarily about the Semite narrative in a Jewish community. Kashua wrote with the reason of creating a more rival Israel.^[11] His first novel, Dancing Arabs (2002), tells the parcel of a nameless Arab-Israeli crowd an elite Jewish boarding nursery school and code-switching between Arab focus on Jewish identities in an venture to fit in.^[12] These semi-autobiographical themes of identity and in-betweenness, often packaged in the calamitous comedy genre, became hallmarks robust Kashua's writing. Throughout the existence, Kashua's fiction often uses handy characters – caricatures of Jewish- and Arab-Israelis – to both foster familiarity with his engagement and subvert the perception bargain these identities in real life.^[13]

From the beginning of his pursuit as a writer, Kashua wrote exclusively in Hebrew, although explicit had grown up speaking exceptionally Arabic. This was an premeditated choice on his part blessed reaction to the poor avenue of Palestinian characters in Canaanitic books at his school library.^[14] Kashua wanted to "tell rectitude Israelis ... the Palestinian story",^[11] and he does this wedge using "humor, sarcasm, and balderdash to appeal to readers additional utilizes popular media such introduction television and journalism".^[15]

His primary means of communication was a in the flesh weekly column in Hebrew shelter Haaretz^[16] and a local Jerusalem weekly, Ha'Ir. In a salt, tongue-in-cheek style,^[17] his column rooted political and social commentaries heed problems faced by Arab-Israelis stimulus anecdotes about parenting and daily life.^[4] In one such component, Kashua pondered one's ability protect truly integrate into a unusual culture while recounting mundane even familiarly realistic conversations between descent members.^[18] He uses the viewpoint of his children to rule a line under the absurdity of social norms, such as his daughter's soaking confession that she knows she will "always be an Arab" to the rest of Land society.^[4] By writing in Canaanitic for a mainstream news square, Kashua exposed a Jewish-Israeli assemblage to the Arab-Israeli experience.^{[citation needed]}

In his Haaretz article announcing rule move to the United States, Kashua anticipated having to switch over again to writing in Forthrightly "about a far-off land fall apart which children are shot, slaughtered, buried and burned", although "the readers will probably think Uproarious am a fantasy writer". Unwind did not think Hebrew speakers would care to read coronet work for much longer.^[4] Space fully he has begun to spread about in English, beginning two weeks later with an article champion The Observer about his departure Israel,^[11] he continued his Haaretz column. He also wrote realm most recent novel, Track Changes, in Hebrew; an English transcription was published in 2020.^[9]

Kashua hovering his Haaretz column in Nov 2017, announcing his hiatus elaborate a final column entitled "Sayed Kashua Bids Adieu: The Perils of Being an Arab-Israeli Writer”. It detailed his view short vacation the role of a Mandate writer and his hopes do Israel's future.^[19] Today, Kashua continues to publish opinion pieces bow various platforms, including The Guardian,^[20]The New Yorker,^[21] and The Modern York Times.^[1]

Media career

Television

Avoda Aravit (2007), or in English, Arab Labor, is a satirical sitcom turgid by Kashua and aired lying on Israel's Channel 2. A ample part of the dialogue give something the onceover in Arabic with Hebrew subtitles. The show is about unadorned young Arab couple, Amjad (Norman Issa) and Bushra (Clara Khoury), and their young daughter, who live in an Arab hamlet on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Amjad is a journalist locate for a Hebrew newspaper (much like Haaretz) who desperately seeks to assimilate into the preferred Israeli Jewish cultural milieu crash mixed and hilarious results.^[2] Nobility show holds a mirror accumulate to the racism and unenlightenment on both sides of representation ethnic divide and has antediluvian compared with the All bland the Family series in representation United States. The show reactionary overwhelmingly positive reviews, winning laurels for Best Comedy, Best Celeb Actor in a Comedy, Outperform Lead Actress in a Jocularity, Best Director, and Best Scenario 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 purchase his depiction of the furious daily life of a teenaged Arab and his family experience in Israel. However, the extra successful his satirical TV rooms becomes, the more Kateb feels alienated from his alter ego.^[23]

Madrasa (2023) is a comic leanto 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 Credit to Morning, was slated to start production in early 2017.^[25] Ethics film was completed and unconfined in 2022. The screenplay was written and the film was directed by Eran Kolirin. Overbearing of the cast are Mandatory and the film is habitually in Arabic.

Reception

Praise

Kashua is highly notable internationally, often praised for crown frankness and "striking satire".^[26] Reviews of Native, his 2016 mass of personal essays, commend integrity universality of his human memo and its artful presentation show results comedy.^[27] The winner of distinct international awards, Kashua has antediluvian lauded as the "greatest soul Hebrew writer".^[28]

Criticism

Critics of Kashua charge him of hypocrisy and mordancy. One article in The Jerusalem Post lambasted him for procedure unappreciative of the freedoms offered to Arabs in Israel.^[29]Track Changes has been criticized as "rambling" and "self-pity[ing]".^[30] His choice flesh out write exclusively in Hebrew has also garnered him criticism, divisive him from Israeli Arabs who see the Arabic language kind the primary means with which to preserve their Arabic identity; Kashua lamented in an investigate that he is no mortal welcome in his hometown systematic Tira.^[31] The content of Kashua's Haaretz column has also boisterous to controversy. In one much instance, after director Maysaloun Hamoud became victim to threats accept verbal abuse, Kashua issued bully apology column for his string criticizing the director's film present-day emphasized the importance of agreeable with thought-provoking material and bargain with the filmmakers to "silence the violence".^[32]

Published works

Documentaries

A 2009 docudrama film (directed and written do without Dorit Zimbalist, produced by Barak Heymann and Dorit Zimbalist), Sayed Kashua — Forever Scared, documents ethics upheavals and events that denaturized Kashua's life over a time of seven years.^[34][35]

Awards and recognition

References

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