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Ibrahim Nasrallah

Palestinian Poets

Nasrallah was born in Ilwihdat refugee camp in Jordan in 1954. He studied in UNRWA schools in the camp and got his teaching degree from a training college in the camp. He moved to Saudi Arabia and worked as a teacher between the years of 1976-1978. Nasrallah then returned to Jordan and worked at Dostur, Afaq and Hasad newspapers. He is in charge of cultural activities at Darat-al-Funun in Amman. Nasrallah received numerous awards: The Award for Best Poetry Collection published in Jordan, The Arar literary Award for his body of work, and the Jordanian Writers Society Honorary prize three times for three of his poetry collections, and the prestigious Sultan Oweiss Award in 1998. He is a member of the Sakakini General Assembly. In 2001 Nasrallah donated all proceeds from his poetry collection "Maraya Al-Malai'ka" (Mirrors of Angels) to the Sakakini. The collection was written in tribute to Iman Hijjo, the infant girl who was killed by the Israeli shelling of Gaza on May 7^th 2001.