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).
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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...
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...