Background
Araidi was born in Maghar, Israel and completed his elementary school in his village, then moved to Haifa to complete his secondary education.
Araidi was born in Maghar, Israel and completed his elementary school in his village, then moved to Haifa to complete his secondary education.
Araidi was born in Maghar, Israel and completed his elementary school in his village, then moved to Haifa to complete his secondary education. He went on to gain Bachelor of Arts in Hebrew language and Political Science and another Bachelor of Arts in Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature. Then he gained a M.A in Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa.
This was followed with a Doctor of Philosophy in Hebrew Literature from Bar-Ilan University.
Work and Writing He served as an instructor and a lecturer in both the University of Haifa and Bar-Ilan University. Then he moved to Gordon College and the Arab College for in Israel. He then served as the Director of the Children"s Literature center at the Arab College as well as the coordinator of Studies for the Non-Jewish students at Gordon College.
Doctor Naim presented two weekly programmes on Channel 2, a children"s programme and a news programme.
He also established "First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Sewar" magazine. He held many public positions and participated in a large number of international festivals for writing and poetry.
Many of Araidi"s published works appear in translation. Foreign the first time in Italy in 2014 an anthology of his poems was published by Seam Edizioni.
The first edition was presented during the roman poetical twinning with Ottobre in Poesia in 2013.
The second edition occasioned a tour organized by the same publisher and poets Igor Costanzo, Beppe Costa, Stefania Battistella who translated the work. Araidi established the Nissan organization for Literature in 1999. The international is held annually in April in Maghar.
In April 2012, Araidi was supposed to serve as Israeli ambassador to New Zealand.
In June, that decision was changed and he was instead appointed as ambassador to Norway where he served until 2014. Prizes and