Background
Sayed Kashua was born in 1975 in the village of Tira, Israel, the second of four sons. His father worked as a bank teller and his mother was a teacher.
1990
Derech Chaim E. Kolitz 1Jerusalem, Israel
When Sayed Kashua was 15, he was accepted to the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy High School in Jerusalem, a boarding school that is very highly regarded in the country.
2006
Sayed Kashua, Palestinian writer in Milan
2010
165 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023, United States
Actress Clara Khoury, Festival founder Carole Zabar and author/journalist Sayed Kashua attend the 4th Annual Other Israel Film Festival at The Samuel Priest Rose Building on November 11, 2010 in New York City.
2016
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Sayed Kashua on the roof of his house in Tira, Jerusalem.
2016
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2017
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The Hebrew University, The Edmond J. Safra Campus - Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel
Sayed Kashua attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he studied sociology and philosophy.
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147 Bay State Rd # 103, Boston, MA 02215, United States
Elie Wiesel Center Director Michael Zank, Sayed Kashua, and BU History Professor Simon Rabinovitch chat before welcoming the audience at Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.
147 Bay State Rd # 103, Boston, MA 02215, United States
Director of Israeli Stage, Guy Ben-Aharon, grabs a personal moment with Kashua after the talk at Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.
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Sayed Kashua, Israeli writer and creator of the hit TV show “Arab Labor,” signs a copy of his book after his lecture.
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(As a child, our nameless narrator/antihero lives with his...)
As a child, our nameless narrator/antihero lives with his family in his grandmother's house. His grandmother and father constantly impress upon him the significance of their land: when so many people fled or sold theirs away, they held strong. "Better to die fighting for your land than to give it away." Every night after his brothers fall asleep, he climbs into bed with his grandmother, his main source of comfort and protection. One night she tells him where the key to her secret cupboard is, and if she should die, he must find all the death equipment in the blue bag. Paranoid from then on, he races home every day at recess to see if she's died. One day he gets there and she is not there, so he unlocks the cupboard and pulls out the box. All he finds are towels and some soaps from Mecca, but then he notices his father's photo in the old newspaper lining the suitcase and some postcards in his father's handwriting.
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2004
(Let It Be Morning offers an intimate, eye-opening portrai...)
Let It Be Morning offers an intimate, eye-opening portrait of the conflicted allegiances of the Israeli Arabs, proving once again that Sayed Kashua is a fearless, prophetic observer of a political and human quagmire that offers no easy answers.
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2004
(Second Person Singular follows two men, a successful Arab...)
Second Person Singular follows two men, a successful Arab criminal attorney and a social worker-turned-artist, whose lives intersect under the most curious of circumstances. The lawyer has a thriving practice in the Jewish part of Jerusalem, a large house, a Mercedes, speaks both Arabic and Hebrew, and is in love with his wife and two young children. In an effort to uphold his image as a sophisticated Israeli Arab, he often makes weekly visits to a local bookstore to pick up popular novels. On one fateful evening, he decides to buy a used copy of Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata, a book his wife once recommended. To his surprise, inside he finds a small white note, a love letter, in Arabic, in her handwriting.
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2010
(With an intimate tone fueled by deep-seated apprehension ...)
With an intimate tone fueled by deep-seated apprehension and razor-sharp ironic wit, Kashua has been documenting his own life as well as that of society at large: he writes about his children’s upbringing and encounters with racism, about fatherhood and married life, the Jewish-Arab conflict, his professional ambitions, travels around the world as an author, and more than anything his love of books and literature. He brings forth a series of brilliant, caustic, wry, and fearless reflections on social and cultural dynamics as experienced by someone who straddles two societies. Written between 2006 and 2014, Native reads like an unrestrained, profoundly thoughtful personal journal.
https://www.amazon.com/Native-Dispatches-Israeli-Palestinian-Sayed-Kashua-ebook/dp/B0163BZ1O4/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(The novel Track Changes follows an Arab-Israeli man as he...)
The novel Track Changes follows an Arab-Israeli man as he reckons with the weight of his past, his memories, and his cultural identity. Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in Illinois receives word that his estranged father, whom he has not spoken to in fourteen years, is dying. Leaving his wife and their three children, he returns to Jerusalem and to his hometown of Tira in Palestine to be by his family’s side. But few are happy to see him back and, geographically and emotionally displaced, he feels more alienated from his life than ever. Track Changes is a stunningly original, poignant, and captivating exploration of alienation, love, country, and memory by one of the most important writers at work today.
https://www.amazon.com/Track-Changes-Sayed-Kashua-ebook/dp/B07YBJ3RCX/?tag=2022091-20
2020
Sayed Kashua was born in 1975 in the village of Tira, Israel, the second of four sons. His father worked as a bank teller and his mother was a teacher.
When Sayed Kashua was 15, he was accepted to the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy High School in Jerusalem, a boarding school that is highly regarded in the country. After that, he attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he studied sociology and philosophy.
Sayed Kashua began his career as a Journalist in 1995. In 2014 Kashua moved to Illinois where he accepted a teaching position at the University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign. In the past decade, he has become the kind of writer of the column, in the left-leaning newspaper "Haaretz". He is also the creator of the sitcom “Arab Labor”.
Sayed Kashua wrote “Dancing Arabs” in 2004, which explores Kashua's life and experiences as an Arab Israeli, albeit in a fictionalized manner. He also wrote, "Let It Be Morning" in 2004, "Second Person Singular" in 2010, "Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life" in 2015 and "Track Changes" that was published in 2017.
(With an intimate tone fueled by deep-seated apprehension ...)
2015(Let It Be Morning offers an intimate, eye-opening portrai...)
2004(Second Person Singular follows two men, a successful Arab...)
2010(The novel Track Changes follows an Arab-Israeli man as he...)
2020(As a child, our nameless narrator/antihero lives with his...)
2004
Quotations:
"I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way".
"I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first; otherwise, they will shoot you".
Sayed Kashua is married and has three children, a daughter and two sons.