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Atef Abu Saif was born on 1973 in Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza Strip, is a Palestinian writer (born 1973). Discover Atef Abu Saif's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?
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Atef Abu Saif Height, Weight & Measurements
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Atef Abu Saif Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Atef Abu Saif worth at the age of 51 years old? Atef Abu Saif’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from . We have estimated Atef Abu Saif's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Atef Abu Saif (born 1973) is a Palestinian writer.
His books have been translated into various languages, and his writings have also been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Guernica, and Slate.
Since his literary debut in the late 1990s, Abu Saif has written a number of novels and short story collections.
He published five other novels: Shadows in the memory (1997), Tale of the Harvest Night (1998), The Snow Ball (2000), The Salty Grape of Paradise (2003), and Running in Place (2019).
In addition to that he published two collections of short stories: Everything is Normal and Stories from Gaza Time.
Abu Saif edited as well a collection of short stories from Gaza titled The Book of Gaza, which includes as well one of his own short stories.
His novel A Suspended Life (2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 Arabic Booker Prize.
It was published by Comma 2014.
His account of the 2014 Gaza conflict was published in English under the title The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City Under Fire, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky.
Extracts from the diaries have appeared in Western publications such as Slate, Guernica, The Guardian and The New York Times.
The Diaries appeared in Germany 2015 under the title Frühstück mit der Drohne, from Unionsverlag.
A Suspended Life is going to be published in English autumn 2016 by Bloomsbury.
On 5 February 2018, Fatah's Information, Culture, and Ideology Commission commissioned him as a spokesman for Fatah.
He has served as a spokesman for Fatah and served as Minister for Culture in the Palestine Authority since 2019.
Abu Saif was born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
He studied at the University of Birzeit and the University of Bradford before going on to obtain a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence.
Abu Saif's 2019 novel Running in Place was the first novel from Gaza to be translated into Hebrew and published in Israel.
Abu Saif's diary dispatches written while visiting in Gaza during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war were published in the New York Times and Slate magazine.
They will be published as a collected volume, titled Don't Look Left, in February 2024.
Since 2019, he has been the Minister for Culture in the Palestine Authority.
In March 2019, Palestinian Authority news organization Wafa published pictures that showed Saif, bruised and bandaged, clothed in blood-stained garments and lying on a hospital bed.
Wafa said that Saif had been beaten as Hamas attacked protestors and journalists; protestors were on the streets to demand better living conditions.
