Ibrahim Mālik

Jamal Assadi received his PhD in English literature from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. He is currently Senior Lecturer (A) in the Department of English at Sakhnin College, where he has occupied several key offices. He previously worked at various colleges in Israel and at An-Najah National University, Nablus. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, Dr. Assadi is the author of Acting, Rhetoric, and Interpretation in Selected Novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow (Lang, 2006); co-author of The Road to Self-Revival: Sufism, Heritage, Intertextuality and Meta-Poetry in Modern Arabic Poetry (Lang, 2011); co-editor of A Distant Drummer: Foreign Perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald (Lang, 2007); and translator and editor of many books. Dr. Assadi also writes children’s stories.

«Jamal Assadi in his subtle reading and translation of Ibrahim Mālik’s works (short stories and poetry) demonstrates a fine literary sensibility and an acute appreciation of the craft of fiction and poetry. This is undoubtedly a significant contribution to the scholarship of Ibrahim Mālik fiction and poetry in particular and Palestinian literature in general.»(Foad Azzam, The Department of Arabic, Sakhnin College)

• Contents: Short Fiction – Poetry.