2024-09-15 13:46:20
The Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, a passionate advocate of the Palestinian cause, just passed away after a long illness in Beirut this Sunday. He is 76 years old.
Writer Elias Khoury, one of the greatest Lebanese novelists of his generation and an ardent defender of the Palestinian cause, died on Sunday at the age of 76, sources close to his family told AFP.
Elias Khoury died after a long illness in Beirut, where he had been hospitalized for several months.
His work, which explores themes of memory, war and exile, has been translated into many languages including French, English, German, Hebrew and Spanish.
Committed to the cause of Palestine
One of his best-known writings, The sun door (Actes sud, 2002), an epic recounting the tragedies of the Nakba, the exodus of Palestinians from their lands during the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, was adapted for cinema by Egyptian director Yousri Nasrallah.
In addition to the Palestinian question which he addressed in several other novels, including three Children of the Ghettoone of his last works, he also mentioned the Lebanese civil war in many of his works The little mountain or its.
Born in Beirut in 1948, he was very involved early in the Palestinian cause. From 1975 to 1979 he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Palestinian affairscollaboration with the great poet Mahmoud Darwich.
“Year of Pain”
He is also the editor-in-chief of the cultural section of the Lebanese daily As-Safir and the editor-in-chief of the cultural supplement of the Lebanese daily An-Nahar.
Elias Khoury has taught at several universities including Columbia in the United States.
He continued to write until his last breath, despite his hospitalization and suffering.
In an article written from his hospital bed in July, titled “A Year of Pain”, he said: “Gaza and Palestine have had a conflict for almost a year and they are facing… it is a model; who teaches me every day from the love of life”.
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