Mahmoud Shukair

Mahmoud Shukair was born in Jerusalem in 1941. He is the author of more than seventy books of short stories and novels, which have been translated into many languages. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Mahmoud Darwish Prize for Freedom and Creativity (2011) and the Jerusalem Prize for Culture and Creativity (2015).

The Little King

Summer 2021
Mahmoud Shukair

Hiba Yassine / Courtesy of the artist In the following parable, a young boy discovers that he is a king. 1 I never thought I’d become a king at the age of thirteen. I...
Praise for the Women of the Family by Mahmoud Shukair

Summer 2019
Mahmoud Shukair

Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink Books. 2019. 240 pages. Praise for the Women of the Family is a character study of a Palestinian clan set after the 1967 war. Women in the novel are obje...