Elias Khoury

Elias Khoury (Arabic إلياس خوري, DMG Ilyās HURI; born July 12, 1948 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese writer. He has published numerous novels in Arabic that have been translated into several languages. Today he lives and works in Beirut.

Khoury grew up in Beirut in the predominantly Christian district of Al - Ashrafiya up as the son of a family of Greek Orthodox origin. As a young man he trained in Fatah and fought actively to 1976 in the Palestinian resistance. In parallel, he studied from 1968 History and Sociology at the Université Libanaise in Beirut and graduated from 1970 to 1973 with a diploma from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris from. Between 1973-1979 he was employed in the PLO Research Centre in Beirut. During this time he began the first essays and novels to be published. In the eighties he worked as a lecturer of Arabic literature for a year at Columbia University in New York and at various high schools in Beirut. In 2003 he was a visiting professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at New York University. Since 1992, Khoury is editor of the cultural supplement of the Beirut daily An-Nahar. From 1993-1998 he was director of experimental theater Masrah Bayrut. He is deputy head of organized annually Ayloul festival for experimental, multi -media art in Beirut. 2010/11 is Elias Khoury Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.

In his novels, plays and essays to Khoury expresses critical socio recent political time for questions and Middle East policy. He is regarded as a committed intellectual who, relentlessly comments on the U.S. and Israel, but also that certain Arab states policy. His novels often act of war-related emigration and the loss of home and identity. For his most famous work Bab as - sams ( Gate of the Sun ), which tells the collective uprooting of the Palestinian people, he was in 1998 awarded the Palestine Prize. This novel was made ​​into a film in 2004 by Yousry Nasrallah in a co-production with ARTE.

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