Education
He earned a Bachelor in Arabic literature from the University of Jordan in 1985.
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Mohammad Tomaliah
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He started his career at Ad-Dustor daily in 1983. Tomaliah is the first Jordanian writer to write satirical articles and stories. He created a unique literary genre where he combined literary and journalistic style in writing that is free of flowery language and cliches.
Mohammad Abdullah Mustafa Tomaliah was born in Abu Tarraba village in the governorate of Karak, south of Jordan.
He was born to family who was originally from Innaba village in the Palestinian city of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ramla. Since childhood, Tomalaih was enchanted by world literature, especially the Russian.
He would memorize entire excerpts from Russian novels and reincarnated the characters in these novels. Tomaliah died in 2008 after suffering for four years from cancer.
He is celebrated by Mohammad Tomaliah Award for Short Stories.
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He also wrote for other dailies and was a member of the Jordanian Writers Association and of the Arab Writers Association.
